Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruiting of athletes at Yale and down south is that Yale has more money to spend, and goes about it more subtly. Yale men long ago founded the University of Georgia. Later, they established a pleasant football relationship, with Yale winning every year. Then beginning in the late '20s, Georgia won six out of seven, and it wasn't so nice any more. When Georgia won her fifth straight in 1934, Yale thought it best to sever the relationship. After twelve years, it seems Yale is still sensitive about her grownup offspring...
Gerhart Eisler-Berger has the background and the intellectual equipment for the role of The Brain. He and sister Ruth were the children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...
Cyrano de Bergerac (translated from the French of Edmond Rostand by Brian Hooker; produced by Jose Ferrer) drops in on each new generation-Walter Hampden accompanied it in the '20s-as a reminder that high romance once lived in the world, or at any rate in the theater. Brightly tricked out, Cyrano is always welcome, for it offers playgoers the satisfaction of witnessing a "classic" and at the same time reveling in shameless sentiment, noble gestures and high theatrical hokum...
...said the directors. In effect, this was a U.S. concession made to allay British fears over their vital export trade, which might easily be ruined, as it was in the late '20s, by pegging the pound too high. Even though revaluations of more than 10% would still require Fund approval, some economists groused that the Fund's chief club against the practice of "exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake...
Married. Abby Rockefeller Milton, 42, society's "Golden Girl" of the mid-'20s, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Dr. Irving Hotchkiss Pardee, 54, New York Neurological Society president; both for the second time; in Manhattan...