Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curator MacLeish sees that the Fellows get reserved press-box seats at Harvard Stadium games, observes how their eight wives and eleven children bear up under Boston's climate. He also arranges and presides at weekly lively dinners where Fellows hobnob with journalistic guests and Harvard bigwigs, get shaken out of their grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After...
...make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet her eye. For they knew from the papers that that afternoon Mary's father had died at his home in Texas. After the show, chubby, fatherly Victor Moore, accompanied by tubby, motherly Sophie Tucker, went around to Mary's dressing room, gently broke the news, tiptoed...
...Christmas message which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife sent their Christian friends in the U. S. Wrote these pre-eminent products of Christian missions: "There lies upon us and, we presume, upon you also, a great weight of care which religion alone can teach us to bear worthily. . . . Our religion teaches us that sin is immeasurably a greater evil than suffering. . . . Our people ... are being purified and uplifted by their present trials. . . . War is brutal, but it will ever be powerless to rob any of us of the transcendent peace of men who are at peace with themselves...
Died. The four favorite saddle horses of the late British-born Queen Maud of Norway; destroyed (according to her wish, because she could not bear to think of them passing into other hands); at her English home in Sandringham...
Loaded for Bear...