Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolmate fled but he, nearest the charging animal, became confused. He bumped into a nearby raccoon cage, and Saucer was on him, hugging him around the neck, clawing and biting at his shrieking face. Passing motorists stopped to watch the frightful scuffle which sent dead leaves flying in the autumn wind. But they did not get out of their cars. A neighbor with a shotgun was too late to do anything but kill Saucer, and Cup too. Little Grant Taylor was dead, mangled so badly that they did not let his parents...
Haverford like Swarthmore has long emphasized honors work. Under a new system inaugurated this autumn, conferences and tutorial work are to be substituted for lectures, especially in the two upper classes. With the enrolment limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college...
...Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly...
...when the King-Emperor made Sir Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire's War debt to the U. S. He sailed last week on the Majestic with genial, expansive, moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Ronald Lindsay. With elaborate understatement, Sir Frederick observed: "I am visiting America to observe...
...early autumn Radio plans its winter programs, gets fresh advertising accounts, introduces new talent, decides which of the old has outlived its popularity. Last week after long dickering another air season was fairly well lined up. Again Radio, which has made strange bedfellows before, had brought about marvelous combinations of performers and products. Prize combination for this season is a famed oldtime children's laxative, brown and syrupy, and the foremost U. S. violinist, artistic to his fingertips. The violinist is Albert Spalding, the laxative Fletcher's Castoria. These two got together because two years ago Castoria...