Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert W. Peet succeeded the late Sidney Morse Colgate as chairman of Col-gate-Palmolive-Peet Co. S. Bayard Colgate, recently made a partner in Spencer, Trask 6 Co., resigned as a C-P-P vice president, remains a director...
...paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host. And the butler had nothing to do with it, for Swope's servants are black...
...that the most useful and fitting plan of all would be to establish a group of scholarships and fellowships to meet the increase in living expenses which the House Plan has brought about. There are numerous precedents for such action, the Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials. A World War Memorial...
...peddling the proud Worlds from door to door of Manhattan's leading publishers. They had approached Adolph Ochs of the Times, Ogden Reid of the Herald Tribune, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis of the Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, also, it was rumored, their former Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, backed by potent Democratic tycoons. No sale...
...prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went to the Telegram three years ago following...