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...that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Human Usual | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Publishers' Service was founded by Theodore Arter Jr., editor and general manager of the Altoona (Pa.) Tribune. Its resemblance in format to Editor & Publisher, grizzled commander of the field, may be accounted for by the fact that its managing editor is Philip Schuyler, one-time news editor of Editor & Publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Trade Papers | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...following were elected: George Ezra Dave. Pomona '24, of Pasadena, Cal.; Abraham Howard Feller, Columbia '25, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; James Pinkney Hart, University of Texas '25, of Austin, Texas; Joseph Henry Head, Yale '25, of Hillsboro, Ohio; John Edwards Lock-wood, Williams '25, of New York, and Kingsley Arter Taft, Amherst '25, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY ADDED TO LAW REVIEW BOARD IN FALL ELECTION | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Arter '98 has been elected captain of the Amherst football team for next fall in place of Callahan who has left college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1897 | See Source »

...sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

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