Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross the African buffalo, one of the fiercest of the continent's wild beasts, with the common milk-cow, Wynant Davis Hubbard & wife last week departed from Manhattan for a tract of land he has acquired in Rhodesia. Mr. Hubbard is a young Bostonian mining engineer who, soon after the War, went to South Africa to advise an asbestos plant. When he reached the Cape, the job was gone. Desperate, he took a position with a hunting party catching and taming wild animals for zoos. Among the beasts he dealt with (and later described in books) was the native...
...favorite and last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks of Bostonian Sumner Pingree's Soissons, ridden by Jack Skinner...
Harvard, in its nearly 300 years, has been called many names, but it has remained for a writer in the Detroit News to characterize it as one of the "vultures" hovering over an impoverished University of Michigan. But as the Bostonian continues the article he finds, to his relief, that the object of its attack is not Harvard, but the Michigan Legislature. The author is merely indulging in a little hyperbole to dramatize a rather intricate financial argument...
William Cameron Forbes, bald, aristocratic Bostonian, has held two outstanding positions in Statecraft. He was Governor General of the Philippines, chief U. S. executive in the vast Pacific, under President Taft. He is now Ambassador to Japan, only U. S. Ambassador in all Asia...
...picture appeared at the Repertory theatre Monday without creating anything like the stir that one might expect of the work of the man the Theatre Guild modestly describes as "the greatest living English writer." This apparent lack of interest could go down to one of the few instances of Bostonian theatrical taste. Considered from any angle, this production is dull slow and humorless. The only reason for its being filmed apparently was that Mr. Shaw wrote it, but unfortunately his reasons for indulging in its composition seem unfathomable...