Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass drum, they...
...Aiken County, S. C., Farmer George Jackson ran amok, slew two of his uncles, an aunt, three cousins. He was convicted, sentenced to electrocution July 29. Last week 15 of George Jackson's surviving relatives petitioned Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood not to reprieve...
...Josef Hofmann, wife of the famed pianist, was looking for a school for her daughter Josefa. She found none that suited. At length she looked at piny, sandy, swank Aiken, S. C. and found it good. There she established a school, named it Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial...
...Because Aiken is much favored by Eastern socialites, the school attracted many a notable daughter, fell into the familiar pattern of select schools, emulating notably Virginia's Foxcroft. There are hockey and lacrosse; horses may be brought to Fermata or hired there; able girls go drag hunting. But Fermata is not scholastically distinguished. Possibly it did not care to be; between 1923 and 1927 only three girls took College Board examinations...
Miss Turnbach will find Fermata School novel in at least one respect. Late at night twice a week, every able-bodied Fermata girl leaps into special "fire clothes," goes shinnying down a pole for fire drill. (The small boys in Aiken Preparatory School do it too, though most of them fall off sleepily.) Rich Fermata girls do not swagger; all wear green tunics by day. Nor may their parents pamper them; only one meal a weekend is allowed outside of grounds; and no candy except just after lunch in the "candy shop" (an old closet). The school is divided into...