Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, at long last, all was in readiness aboard the S. S. Ryndam at her Hoboken pier. Trunks were swinging to the hold. Librarian Stevens (Williams College) was arranging her shelves (a complete college reference room). Henry J. Allen, onetime (1919-23) governor of Kansas, was winding up his arrangements to publish a daily newspaper on board, representative and facsimile of 48 U. S. dailies. At his home in Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland...
...Richards had made a stand, if he had put out the sad-eyed Lacoste, the bounding Borotra, he might have become a national figure comparable to Ethan Allen, Commodore Perry or Red Grange. But the momentum of the French was too great; thinking of Tilden's fall, of Johnston's failure, of Williams' calamity, how could he survive alone? So it was Rene Lacoste who faced Jean Borotra in the final...
...organized. Father Edison has been a director of these same firms, and always their president. But their officers have been purely nominal, for Son Edison has been the chief operating executive. Last week they had traded titles-henceforth, President Charles, Chairman Thomas Alva. Announced their Vice President R. H. Allen: "From now on Thomas A. Edison will more and more pass his time working in his laboratory and will relinquish more and more the administrative duties...
...Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher Morley, Thomas Beer, Louis Bromfield, Elmer Davis, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield...
...Avenir declared: "Borah hates France with a sort of sadic frenzy." One is a sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...