Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed arty town; home of Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Rose O'Neill, Alan Dinehart, William McFee...
Such things are ghastly to contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...
...Harvard Lampoon has just announced the election of the following officers: Alan Russell Black-burn Jr. '29, of Flushing, N. Y., President; Philip Hichborn '29, of Washington, D. C., Ibis; Henry Harrison Proctor '29, of Boston, Treasurer; and James De Normandie '29, of Boston, Secretary...
...Died. Alan Harriman, 29, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank; at Great Neck, Long Island, from injuries received when his car overturned...