Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before liquor sent him reeling into the gutter, he used to be managing editor of the old San Francisco Morning Call. Later he turned religious, stopped drinking, became a faith healer (his phrase: "metaphysical student"). His "treatments" consisted of instruction in "right thinking." His patients paid him as they chose. No fool, "Sam" Leake knew many an important San Franciscan, including Senator Shortridge whose son & wife he "treated." Through the Shortridges he met Harold Louderback. They became intimate friends. As a State judge, Louderback appointed Leake to at least two court positions. As a Federal Judge, Louderback used Leake...
...people committed suicide because the cover pictures on TIME did not look anything like the people they chose to represent, I would have abundant cause to put a long, shiny poniard in my heart after seeing what was supposed to be a picture of Secretary Woodin on the front of the issue of March 20. It is my opinion that the man who made that picture began it as a picture of L. M. Howe, changed it to an Australian Bushman and ended up with a Bloodhound...
...time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King...
ARCTIC VILLAGE-Robert Marshall- Smith & Haas ($3). When young Plant Physiologist Robert Marshall decided to spend a summer in Alaska he looked at the map. found there were two large uncharted sections. He chose the Upper Koyukuk because it was farther north, inside the Arctic Circle. He liked it so much that a year later he went back there to spend over a year. Arctic Village, May choice of the Literary Guild, is the fascinatingly factual record of his visit. Like Robert Lynd's famed Middletown (statistical study of Muncie. Ind.). Arctic Village's data cover every phase...