Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resourceful pedagog gets about a good bit. That thought might have occurred, 14 years ago, to a tall, youngish psychology professor whose grey eyes looked out from droopy eyelids at the leisurely charm of the University of North Carolina. Harry Woodburn Chase had been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...
...Hill's 30 Northern professors, meeting occasionally for talk and drink, called themselves the "Damyankee Club." Psychologist Chase was a member. He was also, by 1919, the faculty's chairman, the college's acting dean, the university's acting president. In that year, the story goes, the trustees tired of trying to agree on a new president and turned the matter over to the faculty for a vote. Chief candidates were a Southerner and a Northerner. The Damyankee Club tactfully cast 30 votes for the Southerner. The other 170 professors voted for Harry Woodburn Chase...
...unseen and unseeing audience of National Broadcasting Co. was not let in on the fun at first. Loth to help puff a competitor's stunt, NBC banned all mention of the brother-hunt when Burns & Allen were invited as guests of Chase & Sanborn's Eddie Cantor. Fleischmann's Yeast's Rudy Vallee. Crooner Vallee was actually switched off the air when he inadvertently referred to it. But since Eddie Cantor threatened to work in a reference in such a way that NBC would have to switch station announcements, NBC's protests have gone pretty much...
Themistocles imported cockfighting into Greece from Persia. Pedigrees of game-fowl are far more antique than those of any other pure-bred creature. Gamecocks would rather fight than breed or eat. They are trained as carefully as pugilists. First they chase barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers...
...TELL YOU EVERYTHING-J. B. Priestley & Gerald Bullett-Macmillan ($2). That box-for its contents men die, kingdoms totter, the sanctity of a good woman is at stake. An earnest young professor pursues it. learns to swashbuckle, to lady-chase...