Word: californianism
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Since he invented it in 1919, a Californian named Owen P. Smith and his heirs have made more than $2,000,000 out of the mechanical rabbit. There are now 30 greyhound racetracks functioning in the U. S., eight of which are in Florida where 1,000,000 people watch the races during the 90-day season. Miami, where there are more people who do not know what to do with themselves than anywhere else in the U. S., is now the U. S. greyhound-racing capital. Two thousand dogs are quartered there every winter. Filling stations give out free...
...auditorium decorated with eight murals by Frank Brangwyn, offices, rest rooms. High over the veterans' heads on the fourth floor are the 14 galleries of the museum. Beautifully laid out, scientifically lit, all it needs is a permanent collection of pictures. Curator Grace Louise McCann Morley, a native Californian, was able to fill most of her wall space last week with the S. F. A. A. annual exhibition. After that will come the traveling international show of the Carnegie Institute. What Director Morley will do about pictures after that is a problem to be faced when the time comes...
...piece by a U. S. composer, no one was more surprised than John Laurence Seymour, an obscure California schoolteacher who, with little hope, had submitted In the Pasha's Garden. According to one story the Seymour opera was considered at the request of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, a fellow-Californian. According to another rumor, the Metropolitan judges drew lots when they found they had no new U. S. work which really pleased them. More likely, In the Pasha's Garden was chosen because it has only one act and thus could be cheaply produced. Whatever the reason...
Considered by many the most important advance in aerial transportation since the Wright biplane, the Douglas DC2 bears the name of a mild-mannered, retiring Californian named Donald Wills Douglas. Probably the strangest thing about Donald Douglas is that he seems always to have made money building airplanes. A member of the class of 1913 at Annapolis, he left before graduation, finished up at M. I. T. in 1914. He joined Glenn Martin at Los Angeles as chief engineer, left in 1917 to become chief designer for the aviation section of the U. S. signal corps. In 1920 Donald Douglas...
...wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist and completes the exodus from the Ferguson home. Their children gone and Fred's life work at the bank finished, "the folks" take their first vacation and visit Mama Ferguson's wealthy Californian sister. Their roots are in Belmond and they will not be torn free, so "the folks" return to Belmond and settle down to a serene, loving...