Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these are gone, and their ghosts exist only in critiques of the period. Ida Tarboll is remembered chiefly for her popular inanity, 'Lincoln.' Baker is linked solely with his book on Wilson. Lawson, Lloyd, Phillips, Russell--they are resurrected as local color for an historical novel and then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism...
When Jack Sharkey, jowled, beefy and 31, climbed into the ring of Philadelphia's Baker Bowl one night last week he became $25,000 richer. When Tommy Loughran, likewise 31, slack-bellied and scarred from 16 years of prizefighting, entered the opposite corner he knew he would collect not one cent for what was about to happen...
Yale University inaugurated its version of the House Plan-seven colleges in costly quadrangles given by Edward Stephen Harkness. Among Yale's new professors are famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing and James Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll of London who succeeds George Pierce Baker in the Drama School. Yale reshuffled its graduate courses, distributing among its professional schools the degrees in Music, Public Health, Engineering, Drama and Architecture which were formerly offered by the Graduate School...
...will her due. After the wedding she has Rip's bride followed by a detective. When circumstantial evidence of misconduct fails to separate the young couple, Victoria frenziedly locks Anne in a secret vault behind the funeral urns of a pair of Van Bret ancestors. Professor George Pierce Baker taught Playwright McFadden the dramatic tricks with which to make such melodrama, ludicrous in bald outline, almost credible. Audiences appear to enjoy Double Door more than anything they have seen so far this season an approval which is nevertheless faint praise...
...meeting held last night in the Baker Memorial Library, President Conant welcomed the incoming class of the Harvard Business School. He was preceded in speaking by Dean Donham, who dwelt on the cultural background and social contacts that the tradition and national character of Harvard offer...