Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detachment stood guard. Presently up the wooded lane with a Secret Service man at the wheel drove a little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged. His bodyguard helped tuck him into the driver's seat of the Plymouth and off he tootled with the big car following, down Oak Road to Georgia Hall, main building of the Foundation...
...perhaps once, perhaps twice a week. . . . Why, I saw one last night-very good, too. I have no particular taste; in fact I like most of them. There is a very good film at the Empire. Claudette Colbert in She Married Her Boss." She Married Her Boss is a Columbia product, set off by a spoiled child and a drinking party in a store window. To Britons the important thing about it is that it projects "a kissless marriage," i. e., the hero and heroine do not sleep together. It is a fair index to British taste and British censorship...
Last week virtually every man, woman & child in the civilized world had reason to hail Dr. Leroy Leo Hartman of Columbia University with profound, personal gratitude as an authentic Hero of Science. What hundreds of researchers had worked toward since dentistry began, what millions of dentists and their patients had ardently desired, Dr. Hartman had achieved. After 20 years of experiment he had destroyed the threat of the world's most dreaded torture instrument, the dentist's drill, made painless dentistry at last a fact...
Showing that if the United States gave its full support to any and all League measures against Italy, world peace would not thereby be preserved, Richard Sullivan '38 will strike the keynote for Harvard's side of the debate at Columbia this evening...
...sponsoring a dance to be given Friday, December 6 in the Hotel Somerset. The affair will be formal and will take place in the Louis XIV ballroom, Business students and their friends will dance to the music of Jacques Renard and his orchestra, who is heard over the Columbia net work with George Burns and Gracle Alies. Price for members is $3.30, non-members $4.40, couple or stag...