Word: conklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Florence Bascom, head of the geology department of Bryn Mawr College. Other alumni: Director George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey; President Cyrus Adler of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Manhattan) ; U. S. Minister to Denmark J. Dyneley Prince; Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin of Princeton University; Dean Gordon J. Laing of the graduate school of arts and literature of the University of Chicago...
...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...
...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...
Yale: 115-pound--M. J. Krevitt, 125-pound--G. H. Conklin, 135-pound--C. J. Clopper, 145-pound--E. T. Cornish, 158-pound--B. C. Miller, 175-pound--F. F. Russell, captain, Unlimited--D. F. Allen...