Word: alex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICA'S Public Alumnus No. 1 is Alexander Woolicott. As late as his senior year at Hamilton College (New York), his brothers in Theta Delta Chi didn't know whether or not they should read him out of the club. Brother Alex persisted in wearing a red fez about the house. No action was taken, however, and in 1909 Woolicott received the blessing of his Alma Mater and a Ph.B. degree...
Although he was a post-graduate one year at Columbia, Alex has his fondest words and thoughts for Hamilton. In appreciation he received an honorary degree in 1924. Dramatic critic for the Times, Herald, and World in New York from 1914 to 1928, Woolicott has since puttered his way to a fortune as a writer and radio star. Pudgy, preferring physical inertness, be once acted on Broadway in a play that required little effort beyond keeping from rolling off a divan. Yet, in the Great War, he became a sergeant in a hospital unit...
...important lineup change involve the goalic situation. Chunky Howard Johnson of Noble and Greenough has received the call to tend the draperies, displacing Alex Irving who started against both Framiugham and Newton...
...some eight months ago has become quite a thing. A sort of international institution is this comedy by John Holm and George Abbott what with companies romping through it from London to Australia. Boston is the latest of the theatrical nooks and crannies to be discovered by producer Alex Yokel and since the Monday opening at the Plymouth great sounds of merriment have been rolling out into Park Square...
Only persons to worry, however, about legal guilt were four Brooklyn poulterers, Joseph, Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter. Were they guilty of violating the law of the land because, contrary to the Poultry Code, they had allowed their customers to pick what chickens they bought, instead of making customers take chickens by the coop, good and bad alike? Were they guilty because, also contrary to code, they had sold an allegedly sick chicken? Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit...