Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1896 James Gordon Bennett cabled from Paris instructions to W. C Reick, his editorial representative of the New York Herald, to select a staff member to make a survey of horseless vehicles then under construction in the U. S. and to cover fully the development of motor manufacture and sport in this country as a daily and Sunday feature of the Herald...
...publisher wants to hear. This imaginary figure came from a city under 25,000, his father was a professional man, his education includes college training in liberal arts and now he feels the need of more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism, would prefer to remain a Washington correspondent, even though his hours are uncertain, his home office is constantly badgering him with queries for which he must scurry around to find answers, his estimate of Congressmen's calibre is not too high, and he must occasionally run errands and lobby...
Eliot and Adams each placed two men in the select company, the Elephants being Carter H. White '38, hard driving fullback, and tackle Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. '38, whose six feet four inches in height and 203 pounds in weight made him the biggest man in House ball. Husky Paul G. Counihan '39 won the other tackle berth for Adams, and George Akerson, Jr. '39 got the nod at left end for the Gold-coasters...
Word spread through Los Angeles fortnight ago that the city's Art Association was soon to open an ultra-select exhibit of International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number...
Tycoons in Manhattan were last week offered for the first time a luxury already enjoyed in about one of every seven homes in Holland. The select list who followed the example of 340,000 Dutchmen already included Harrison Williams of North American Co., Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water...