Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triangle five blocks long with Times Square at its apex, Longacre Square at its base. Here is the centre of Manhattan's theatrical district, "The Gay White Way," the most crowded part of the city by night and the spot that strangers want to see first. Such pleasure-bent strangers and New Yorkers as have gone there between 7 and 10 o'clock any evening in the past few weeks have viewed an interesting sight: a line of shabby men (a few women among them), chins deep in coat collars, hands deep in pockets, shuffling ever so slowly...
...incomplete: Talcott Parsons, Tutor (A) and J. F. Preston '32 (Lev) did not complete their match; E. W. Robinson '32 (Lev) defeated D. I. Taradash '33 (A), 3-2; A. J. Bernstein '32 (Lev) defeated S. C. Carpenter '33 (A), 3-2; L. M. Patterson '34 (A) defeated Richard Bent...
Retiring. Dr. Harvey Gushing, famed surgeon and brain specialist; as professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Reason: When he becomes 63 next April 8; hospital regulations will oblige him to resign...
...Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with his colleagues. The whole group continued to buzz with informal talk. Mr. Stimson chatted away with Secretary Mellon as if they were in private conference. Secretary Wilbur bent his head to hear what Postmaster General Brown had to say while Secretary of War Hurley hobnobbed with Vice President Curtis as if he had never thought of getting his job. The U. S. S. Akron droned overhead...
...professor in ophthalmic mechanics at Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...