Word: cruikshanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations to find Yaleman Taft gone, Yaleman Cruikshank in his place...
Appointed. Paul Fessenden Cruikshank, 37, founder and headmaster of Romford School (Washington, Conn.); to succeed Horace Button Taft, 74, as headmaster of Taft School (TIME, Dec. 31); in Watertown, Conn...
...eminently respectable Newton Galleries was exhibited a series or black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood for John Doyle, an artist that modern critics have learned to classify with his more famed contemporaries, George Cruikshank and John Leech. His son Richard became the famed Punch illustrator. Every week at least 200,000 people look with lacklustre eyes on "Dicky" Doyle's best-known drawing-the cover for Punch, designed in 1844. John Doyle's little grandson grew up to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
...play is, like the title, forced and manifestly uninspired. But not all the lines fall short. The Plymouth audience did not hesitate to show appreciation when Hope Williams, on dismissing her over-formalized Rising Young Business Man suitor (Coburn Goodwin), asked him as a last favor to "goose Mrs. Cruikshank...
Secretary Woodin collects U. S. gold coins, particularly $5 pieces which have been experimentally minted but never put into circulation. Once he wrote a book on numismatics which begins: "Coins are the metallic footprints of nations." He has a rare collection of the etchings of George Cruikshank, Dickens' illustrator. A standing joke of Mr. Roosevelt's to ward off press queries: "I've been discussing Mr. Woodin's Cruikshanks." Prominent in his delicate, heartshaped countenance are Mr. Woodin's twinkling blue eyes and his small mouth, a cupid's but firm. He plumes himself...