Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant that President Lowell who so often said that this is the "age of advertising" should live to see Harvard's men of learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant...
10th. Up betimes to stand long in the window before dressing myself. Down under me the Charles running along toward the Basin with as little concern as if it never heard of February. Lord, how forlorn the little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...
...catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h...
That is ice boating, a sport as old in the U. S. as the meeting in the cellar of John Vassar's brewery at Poughkeepsie where his cronies formed the first ice yachting club in America in 1861. Once lording it over the railroad trains they outdistanced along the banks of the Hudson River, ice boats yielded to river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota...
...Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman...