Word: lochinvar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage in a serious moment he recalled a gag another actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and leaped his way to stage success as a bounding Lothario, a leaping Lochinvar who made love on the bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three...
Corn-fed young Lochinvar of Midwest American writing in 1890 was Hamlin Garland. With sturdy grass-root realism his A Son of the Middle Border (1917) echoed the dissatisfaction of Populist farmers with Eastern banks and business, again surprised seaboard intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan. But Populism was already dead and Garland was left like last year's scarecrow among the corn shocks. With the passing of the middle border he sought a substitute in the borderland of the spirits and its terrestrial outpost in Southern California. From there he still issues books...
Leaving at length his love, our Harvard Lochinvar wandered deeply pensive, in media nocte, along the stem of Madison Avenue. But public transporation failing, he felt the need, before he reached his house, of swerving down a dark and dangerous alley...
Actually he is neither young nor Lochinvar. At 44, he has been case-hardened for 22 years in practical politics. Born at Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before...
When Wesley Fesler came, like young Lochinvar, out of the West, to herald the renaissance of Harvard basketball last year, a renaissance devoutly to be wished after dark ages under the tutelage of Ed Wachter, local fans and wise-acres tossed caps in air and cheered for the undefeated season that was to come. When it didn't appear, dark gloom settled again, but Fesler persevered, with the encouragement and critical advice of Big Bill Bingham, in his attempt to instill the rudiments of the game into his charges. Now it seems that he has succeeded. The last period victory...