Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assisted by the flapper granddaughter of a financial magnate. Izzy marries the flapper, and the villain is shot?anonymously but most satisfactorily?dead. It is an enjoyable story by the late creator of Wallingford and Blackie Daw, but it falls, perhaps, somewhat short of the heights attained by those classic heroes...
...Rubber has valiantly paid on its 8% preferred issue, but evidently with much effort. Now Kelly-Springfield has passed to 1½% quarterly installment on its 6% preferred stock, and the stock-holders must in viewing the company's immediate future be stout optimists to obey the classic injunction to "Keep Smiling with Kellys...
...Stuyvesants have always gone, to assure themselves that the grave of their ancestor, Peter Stuyvesant, was in good keeping. But this year, Mr. Stuyvesant and his family left the churchyard without leaving their individual checks for $900 at the church. That was the beginning of the end of the classic dances instituted by Dr. William N. Guthrie which brought upon him the Episcopal admonition of William T. Manning, Father in Christ...
GOLF WITHOUT TEARS-P. G. Wode-house-Doran ($2.50). A beguiling round of golf stories, diverting enough to amuse even the non-golfer. These breezy, non-classic, ultra-American dissertations on the Great Game are touchingly dedicated to "the immortal memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie who at Edinburgh, in the year 1593 A. D., were imprisoned for playing of the gowf on the links of Leith every Sabbath the time of the sermonses...
...saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles, Mad Play succeeded in maintaining his lead and finally won by 1½ lengths from Bud Fisher's Mr. Mutt. Harry F. Sinclair had won for the third time the $50,000* Belmont classic...