Word: botte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Willets, Cox, and Hulse formed the Crimson front line, with Bott and Gray at defense, and Hanford in the nets...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
...Harkness office last week secretaries shooed away newshawks with their employer's rigid formula: Edward S. Harkness does not talk to the Press. But Lawrenceville's enthusiastic young Headmaster Allan Vanderhoeft Heely, who came from Andover two years ago to succeed the late Mather Almon ("The Bott") Abbott, told a story calculated to excite the envy of any U. S. educator. Benefactor Harkness had given $7,000,000 to Exeter for a Conference Plan, besides budgetary lifts to Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized...
...Green comes to Camp on Soldiers Field with very small Ray of Sunshine, but the Hull game is right in the Crimson Handrahan. Harlow blocking and tackling will Lynch the Dartmouth hopes, Bott Coach Blaik will resort to strategy in Casey finds his Armour vulnerable. Kenny Frick the works? Sage thinks...
Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...