Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Frank DeKlyn Huyler, 50, onetime (1910-26) president of Huyler's Inc. (chain candy stores)* at Stony Point, N. Y.; suddenly of heart disease...
...industry, science and invention, to decreasing the hours of work, but we devote comparatively little to improving the hours of recreation. We associate joy with leisure. We have great machinery to produce joy, some of it destructive, some of it synthetic, some of it mass-produced. We go to chain theatres and movies; we watch somebody else knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain...
...Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes...
There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow...
...shock to smug civilized security to learn that two men have actually been lost somewhere along the familiar lane between England and America. When Nungesser and Coli left Paris on their flight, the world looked on in satisfaction, anticipating the forging of another link in the long chain of human achievement. And now, in the excitement of the aviators' disappearance, there is a note of surprise...