Word: californianism
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...Johnston's collapse started when he was defeated by James O. Anderson son in that history-making five-set struggle during the Davis Cup matches. The diminutive Californian pays the penalty of too much competitive tennis. . .. This year he came on much earlier than usual to participate in the so-called world championship at Wimbledom...
Died. Lyman Stewart, 83, pioneer Californian oilman, at Los Angeles. Starting three years before John D. Rockefeller, he built up the Union Oil Co., now capitalized...
Virtually every day of the tournament there was an exchange of telegrams between Tilden and Miss Pola Negri, emotional film star, in Hollywood. Just before his crowning triumph Tilden read a long wire from Miss Negri that informed him the " entire Hollywood colony " was backing him against the Californian...
Robert Frost, a Californian transplanted to Vermont soil, took book-learning fitfully at Dartmouth, then at Harvard, reverted early to the teachings of nature in open fields and wooded hill country. He was and is a farmer, by temperament and occupation, but has found time to teach, first at a local academy, later at normal school and Amherst College (1916-20). His published works are contained in four slim volumes. He has a reputation for thinking much, transcribing little. He returns this Fall to Amherst...
...square-built man from California, the high priest of all irreconcilables, as their great leader in the next campaign. Mr. Johnson was one of those who, with Roosevelt, split the Republican ranks in 1912. (Johnson was nominated for Vice President by the Progressives in that year.) Again, the Californian is regarded as a leader for the dissenters within the Republican party?not the radical La Follettonian dissenters, but the conservative, League-abhorring, strict-isolationist group. Those who want such a leader would like to make the dinner in Senator Johnson's honor a protest against the World Court proposal...