Word: howes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Very fine and praiseworthy your insistence that ''racket" be kept a word undefiled by loose usage. But why not, while you were at it, tell the origin and specific applications of the word so that we can know how to use it properly. . . .
A man who knows how to make a good saw and who was Wartime purchaser of helmets and armor for the U. S. Government, watched the construction of one of the world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of...
Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide...
The annual production of Princeton University's Triangle Club-most ambitious of U. S. college musicomedies-is annually hailed by the current undergraduates as -much better than last year's show.-This year's Triangle show is called The Tiger Smiles. Its excellence easily equals anything the...
Geoffrey West makes no mention of his pseudonymous fellow, Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is...