Word: crotchet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victim of this innocent crotchet last week was Mrs. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. it was caused by her eagerness to perform creditably at the launching of her husband's newest yacht. Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute...
...curing of Mrs. Vanderbilt's crotchet and its consequences were easily last week's biggest sport news. One of the top sport events of 1937 will be the yacht races for the America's Cup, off Newport, starting July 31. For the past nine months, the America's Cup races have been a matter of formal correspondence, long-winded argument about rules, scale-drawings and fabulously costly boatbuilding. For the next three months all this will be replaced by sailing...
...spirit did not think it right that Henry Adams should hear of Auguste Comte; it did not care to explore the moral results of the industrial revolution. Nor does it care to discuss them now, with the result that most American undergraduates still think of Socialism as a scholastic crotchet that is first cousin to free love and atheism. Mr. Hoover, one remembers, thought that all good things should drop from above. They did not in the economic structure, and they will not in the academic. All power to the National Student League or to any other undergraduate organization which...