Word: burbank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail the careers of some 13 major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout the three volumes. The author provides, in addition, a shorthand autobiography in the form of 51 poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most...
Others on whom Coach Carr is relying, and who will appear early, include Thomas Metley '38, inside, Richard G. Powell '38, fullback, Bernard Jacobson '39, halfback, and Daniel E. Burbank '37, halfback...
Dinner will be served before the dance; tickets will be $2.50 a couple and $1.50 stag. The Dance Committee consists of: Daniel E. Burbank '37 (chairman), Edwin A. Meyer '37, William Shelmerdine, Jr. '37, and Theodore P. Robie...
Forty years ago, when Editor Nathaniel ("Nat") Burbank hired Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer to write a weekly women's article for the New Orleans Picayune, he gave her a definite idea of what he wanted. "We'll call this feature 'Sunday Salad,' " he told the brown-eyed young gentlewoman from Tennessee. "Make its base of fresh, crisp ideas. Over them pour a dressing mixed of oil of kindness, the vinegar of satire, the salt of wit, and a dash of the paprika of doing things." They also decided they would henceforth call Mrs. Gilmer, "Dorothy...
...from which friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...