Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stalked the earth last week, Death visited Monrovia Bay off the coast of Liberia, Africa. There he found a man who had lived almost two years beyond the scriptural three score and ten, a bristly-bearded old man in horn-rimmed spectacles on board a quiet yacht. Death took him, took Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, whose address during his failing last years had been, "On Board S. S. Ohio, abroad on the waters of the world...
Divorced. The former Miss Marion Cleveland, daughter of the late President Grover Cleveland, born not in the White House but at Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay, Mass., in 1895; in Paris, from William Stanley Dell. Her mother is now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr., wife of a onetime Princeton professor of archeology...
...University, with four poems and nine stories found available for the Anthology, heads the list of colleges. Next comes Mt. Holyoke with two stories and four poems. Minnesota and Wisconsin, with two stories each come next. Dartmouth has furnished six poems and Columbia five with one story. The Radcliffe Bay Tree has provided one poem and one story. The other colleges whose work will be printed are: Amherst, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Middlebury, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley...
This attitude was swiftly indorsed by Professor Alfred D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University, chairman of a Division of Fine Arts which is raising $150,000 (from sculptors, $10,000) for a Fine Arts Bay in the Cathedral. He said: "The Cathedral is not being built for the benefit of American sculptors or architects but for the cause of religion. . . . Dr. Cram is entirely correct in feeling that he must get the best sculptors he can find...
...perform a clogging act which is as complicated as the ones put on by the solo dancers in other shows. The time spent in front of the long-suffering audiences of Stamford and Atlantic City while the chorus achieved its perfection was justified by the applause of the Back Bay connoisseurs...