Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Money, Anti-Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young...
...eighteen nineties, and the twentieth century. But only genuinely appreciated by our own age. Men like Hardy and Francis Thompson help us to bridge the sharp turns in the stream. After Thompson follow Yeats and A. E., and then it is but a brief jump to Masefield and contemporaries. Aiken and Robinson branch off but then follow quickly Ezra Pound, T. E. Eliot, Amy Lowell, John Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence and the rest. The stripes are many and twisting but the resulting Zebra seems to me just as interesting an animal as the dignified elephant that came before...
...back, like outworn reporters, to the charms of their conversational counters. Investigating this novel theme, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) last week delivered to a giggling audience his history of the successive industry, retirement, and return, not to the grindstone but to the happy pharmacy of one Andrew Aiken, impersonated by plump Walter Connolly, placidly absurd but only mildly funny...
...Southeast is increasingly accessible. By rail, Jacksonville is only 25 hours from New York, 35 from Chicago, 36 from St. Louis. Miami is about eight hours further. A half-day nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...