Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, President Clapp was quite ready to wrestle with the money problem ("Of course, I didn't like correcting papers either"). But last week, there were too many other things to think about. For one, there was the big tea for parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...
...small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
...fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Other presidents have found that the nation's alumnae could better use a whole re-education in the matter. To Lynn White of Mills, the big obstacle was that women outlive their husbands. Then they give away their money to their husbands' alma maters. "I go around the country advising women to predecease their husbands," says Mills's president. "We'd do better...
...Green, it seemed, was simply the pseudonym of socialite Mr. Yorke. After writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...