Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday Mr. J. F. Moors, a member of the Corporation and a Fellow of the University, will give the arguments against intervention. He has been prominent in the formation of the Cotton's Committee on American Relations with Nicaragua and Mexico...
...Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some...
...clever rider and a hard, accurate hitter. W. H. White '28, number two man, is a very aggressive player and knows Pinkerton's game. F. A. Clark '29, who completes the trio, has played a great deal of polo, but is rather inexperienced in the indoor game. J. P. Cotton '29, will relieve Pinkerton. He was captain of his Freshman team and had a great deal of experience playing in England last summer...
...Furthermore," Mrs. Rogers might continue, "for every hundred Ochses and Pulitzers and Hearsts and Curtises and Howards and Pattersons and McCormicks, there is only one Lucy Cotton Thomas. There ought, simply as a matter of equality, to be far more female Newspaper Proprietors...
...said he could make silk purses out of sows' ears, boars' ankles," potato peelings, toothpicks and all manner of garbage. In a large factory now being constructed under his specifications, kitchen refuse will be sifted for the cellulose ingredients of artificial silk or, if desired, gun cotton. The remaining refuse will be distilled for tar, charcoal, acetic acid...