Word: alden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deadlock was avoided when Alden B. Dawson, director of the laboratory, intervened in favor of the ether and issued a form letter suggesting that, in view of the original purpose of the "cold rooms," their use as convenient, oversize Frigidaires for frozen puddings, etc., should cease...
...current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy depends mainly upon the incongruity between Mae West's up-to-date wisecracks and their fin de siècle background...
...Alden S. Blodget '38, of New York City, is the winner of the Sophomore hockey managerial competition, if was announced yesterday. He will take over the duties of manager in his Senior year, and his associate manager will be Marcoe Rivinus Jr. '38 of Roanoke, Virginia. The election is subject to the approval of the Harvard Athletic Committee, which will pass on it this week...
...Oliver Alden, who denied himself the easier road when he was yet a mere compilation of chromosomes--and chose to be a male, is the protagonist of Santayana's story. Born of Epicurean Dr. Peter Alden and hypocritical, timidly tyrannical Mrs. Alden of Great Falls, Conn., he denies himself the easier road all through his life. He is a real Puritan, as Santayana explains in his "Prologue." "He kept himself for what was best.... His puritanism had never been mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness; it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn...
...gives himself more latitude with Mrs. Alden, and with old Nathaniel Alden, Oliver's millionaire uncle. They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...