Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice and character, Mrs. Leiter may be said to dominate Washington society. Born Juliette Williams of Washington, she married Capitalist Joseph Leiter of Chicago in 1908. Her mother, a Mrs. John R. Williams, whom she is said to resemble, still conducts a prosperous Washington realty business, specializing in bachelor apartments with nautical names such as "Anchorage," "Galleon," "Moorings," "Armada." * Mrs. Pearcy F. Eames of Manhattan and Mrs. E. S. Rochester of Washington. * For a description of how the U. S. Chamber's referendum on tax-cutting was taken in at least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President...
...Wabash continue to be among the backwoods schools of the Middlewest, when the East points to formal raiment? No--decidedly not. A ruling is in order, to require all students to wear dress suits to lectures, and tuxedos to laboratories and recitations. Faculty and trustees--do your duty! The Bachelor. Wabash College...
...completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor. . . $115,000 will finish the interior. . .contractors need money...
...asked for permission to take honeymoons after their weddings. At this, there was turmoil among the members of the School Board. "Rubbish!" shouted one member. "Do taxpayers like myself pay cash so that young women, mere chits, may go off and enjoy themselves?" Said Commissioner John Grimshaw Jr., a bachelor: "They can get married after school-hours, whether we like it or not. It would be petty business to refuse to let them take their honeymoons." His remarks carried weight; Helen C. Friedman and Marguerite B. Ellis received leaves of absence. But other members of the Board made comments. Commissioner...
...Story: At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Manhattan, Photios Missailidis and Athanas Harrison conduct the men's main washroom. Each day they place large clusters of small-sized buttonhole flowers (daisies, bachelor-buttons, tube roses, carnations and the like) in vases in their washroom?free buttonhole flowers to any washer-at-the-Ritz...