Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half of one percent...
...Girls. Charles A. Miller, chief adult Scout of Dade County, made a speech. Then Adult Scout John C. Norsk saluted and presented wee Scout Charles A. Miller Jr. Gravely the little fellow saluted Mr. Hoover, drew himself up on tiptoe. Still he was too short, so Mr. Hoover bent down within reach of his shaky fingers, which fastened the gold fleur-de-lis emblem of a Tenderfoot into the blue serge Hoover lapel. Scout Miller saluted. Scout Hoover saluted...
...unanimously pronounce him "gloomy and pessimistic." But the generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume. In his spare moments a man is making a coffin that shall be long enough for him to be neither bent nor snapped. He finishes a first coffin?it is needed for his tall brother; he finishes a second-for his tall son. He starts a third. Then?...
Married. William Jennings Bryan Jr., 39, Los Angeles lawyer, son of the late "Great Commoner"; and Mrs. Ellen Bent Balinger; in Los Angeles. Both were divorcees, both have children...
...tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...