Word: 1880s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself had red hair and green eyes, and red hair was not the thing in the 1880s...
Socialite but not smart is Brearley School. It has never wanted to be smart. The fathers who persuaded Samuel Brearley of Harvard and Balliol to found it were disgusted with the genteel finishing schools of the 1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains...
...Stein & Co. Despite the rise of Nudism, Paris garters are sold in 65 foreign countries, and in a good year A. Stein & Co. makes nearly $1,000,000. (But last year it made only $280,00.) The concern was started in a one-room plant in Chicago in the 1880s by Albert Stein, a German immigrant, to turn out ladies' fancy garters with rabbits' feet and silver buckles and the blazing armbands favored by the high-collared boulevardiers of that era. One by one he imported his three brothers, the last of whom, Sigmund, is now head...
...present head of Singer is a loyal British-born subject of George V. A young lawyer in Hamilton, Ont. when he entered the company in the 1880s, Sir Douglas Alexander was a director before the turn of the Century and has been president for the last 30 years. A conservative. Vandyke-bearded gentleman of a very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that...
...tape they were exactly abreast. Cunningham dived at the tape. Bonthron lunged without falling. The lunge won by inches, in 4.14. Bonthron jogged on around the track, came back to get the cup from Sportsman Hugh M. Baxter, who was a champion pole vaulter and high jumper in the 1880s...