Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of the picturesque garden of the Prime Minister, Wang Yun." When he appears, Wang promptly makes it known that he has two sons-in-law, Wei, the Tiger General and Su, the Dragon General, and three daughters, Golden Stream, Silver Stream and the maidenly Precious Stream (Helen Chandler). The last gives him much trouble because, instead of picking out a prince for a husband, her choice lights on Hsieh (Bramwell Fletcher), her family's handsome and capable gardener. The lovers are banished from Wang's house, whereupon the narrative is briefly clouded by the raven wing...
WHEN Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, new governor of Kentucky, registered at Transylvania College (Lexington, Ky.(, he had, he says, "a new dollar bill, a red sweater, and a smil." He added to this combination athletic skill, its resulting physical buoyancy, plus ability to play jazz on the piano. On several years to coach basketball, "Happy" returned to Transylvania for an A.B. in cost. The University of Kentucky made hima lawyer. Until 1927 he coached freshman football at Central College while he attended to law cases brought to him. He had been doing chores of all sorts since high school when...
...removed from the political whirlgig that had red-headed Governor Chandler cruising the streets for votes in a sound truck with a red-combed rooster on the radiator, is Professor Lloyd Arnold of the University of Illinois, in a state neighbor to Kentucky. With a colleague, Dr. J. A. Vauchulis, in the division of bacteriology, department of health, Dr. Arnold has perfected a new skin disinfectant for surgical use. The new solution is much cheaper than any disinfectant known today and more efficient than any other. Eminent in medicine, Dr. Arnold received his M.A. at Texas Christian...
Besides two penalties detected on Charlie Houghton, George Aldrich, cub defenseman, enlivened the encounter by using his fists on Chandler of Newton, who had previously upset him. Chandler answered the Challenge, but both participants were taken in custody before any further damage was done...
...year-old son, Artist Marin gave himself the luxury of a private studio for the first time in his life two months ago. He knocked the partition out between two small rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor, but Pertaining to Stonington Harbor...