Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Privately and publicly, Mildred Bailey, the Rocking Chair Lady, who used to sing flaming torches with Paul Whiteman, reverently remembers Hoagy for his Old Rocking Chair. When Al Jolson first went on the air, he relied heavily on Lazy Bones, and that was one of Hoagy's tunes...
That is not like him. These walls have sheltered him through many a cold night; for a mere nothing too. They understand each other. Cold at times, yes; but then again the sun rises to the old Tower first before lighting the world below. And that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well...
Married. Francis Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle of Brandon, 82; and Mrs. Julia Emma Isobella FitzGerald Spring Rice, 81, sister of his deceased first wife; in a London Registry Office at which the bride, her thigh lately fractured, arrived in a wheel chair...
Harvard is for Bliss Perry the "Cockpit of Learning." Up to the time of his appointment there had never been a chair of "English Literature", as he explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard...
Ohio's outstanding judge and financial advisor, Howard L. Bevis has been appointed a full professor at the Business School and will take up his duties this year. He will hold the William Ziegler Chair as Professor of Government...