Word: cachet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edgar Albert Guest is one of the most valuable newspaper properties in the U. S. His daily "poem" for the Detroit Free Press is syndicated in some 200 U. S. papers. But the monetary return therefrom is probably less valuable to the Free Press than the cachet of having employed Guest all his adult life, a fact of which the paper's promotion department never loses sight...
...TIME, May 13) in which he held that laudable social aims are no substitute for constitutionality. A man with such beliefs might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases? Had he not voted with the Supreme Court's liberals in nine out of 13 5-to-4 decisions, voted with the conservatives the four...
Author Hammond's father was a Forty-Niner (which gives the same cachet to a Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked...
...square of nine still used abroad, was designed to evade these laws. Until a year ago, the 5,000,000 enthusiastic bowlers in the U. S. included few socialites. This winter, charity tournaments in most big cities and an extensive publicity campaign have helped restore the sport's cachet. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has had bowling alleys installed in his Pocantico Hills estate. Other famed bowlers are Harold Lloyd, Charles M. Schwab, Francis P. Garvan, Julius Fleischmann, Heywood Broun, Wooster Lambert (Listerine), who usually attends the Bowling Congress in his private...
...late Law Professor Algernon Sidney Biddle of the University of Pennsylvania, Francis Biddle, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, trained for the battle of the New Deal on the playing fields of Groton. Harvard College sent him to Harvard Law School which graduated him in 1911. To him fell the prized cachet of being chosen as the man in his class to serve Oliver Wendell Holmes for a year as that Supreme Court Justice's secretary. But Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book...