Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director...
...years ago last Monday, Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York for Paris. The flight made him a Hero (with the aid of the late great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...
...young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David Vivian Bath, the ousted onetime gardener, was well qualified to write, for only year before yesterday he married the entirely honeymoonish Mary Hay, dancer, onetime Mrs. Richard Barthelmess...
...Thomas Augustus Jaggar, volcanologist of :the observatory on Kilauea, H. I., last week addressed the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association. He made two statements of interest: 1) That the time has not yet come when it will be possible to specify exact dates of coming eruptions; 2) That Mauna Loa ("Great Mountain") is preparing an eruption which will occur "sometime within the next 18 months...
...ever refused that election. But Dr. Drury did not hesitate to refuse it. At that time he explained that he would not, could not, leave his boys. Three-quarters of a century old, possessed of a rare tradition in its first headmaster, the late, great Dr. Henry Augustus Coit, St. Paul's is excelled by no U. S. school, emulated by many, equalled by only two or three. Although St. Paul's stresses democracy few of its alumni are not in Social Registers. They are peculiarly loyal, family-bound alumni...