Word: winton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to Columbus Nominee Landon stopped for a rear-platform talk at Cincinnati's Winton Place station, asked the crowd if this were not "the most cockeyed campaign you ever saw?" Pointing to the number of times his opponents had used the phrase "red herring," he declared that the "great granddaddy of all red herrings in the present campaign" was the charge "that I have dodged issues." Thereupon Nominee Landon disposed of that charge by declaring that Prohibition should be settled by the states...
Sabre: Lincerbeaux (P) defeated Richard Morgan '36, 5-4; Harris (P) defeated Edward A. Ackerman '34, 5-2, and Morton Grant '36, 5-4; Edward A. Ackerman defeated Winton...
...always "good theatre," replete with all the tricks of the stage.* A few years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...
...will confess that I think of myself as being entirely New England and having an almost proprietary knowledge of it. You know the kind of thing I mean-a struggle with myself not to be a little bit Olympian when other people talk about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father...