Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right now, however, I am chiefly interested in old autographed books. I dearly love old names, and am coming over to Harvard next week to go through Widener and look at famous signatures. Paul Revere is my idea of the typical old Bostonian, but I expect to discover quite a few historic signatures. I must see the famous glass flowers too," she concluded knowingly. Miss Bainter unwrapped a gift while speaking. It proved to be a collection of old programs, one of which dated back to 1870. "When I announced that I was interested in anything ancient pertaining...
...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...
...would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find the shifty sands of American opinion yield suddenly under their feet." Political powers angled with suave Continental diplomats, with Bostonian literateurs...
...Genteel Lady!-Esther Forbes ($2). A charming, witty, philosophical comedy of mid-Bostonian manners...
...Early Bostonian: [There is] "a story told by Carl Schurz, who, during the American Civil War, on asking a sentry guarding his tent why he had not presented arms to a General who had just left it, received the answer: 'Why, sir, that General was never introduced...