Word: curtisisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell University's outspoken Professor Otis Freeman Curtis, a plant physiologist, has long wondered why educated people are such easy marks for propaganda and hokum. His patience has been taxed beyond endurance by the radio drivel of professors of astrology, by antivaccination and anti-whatnot laws, by a science...
Professor Curtis' outburst was applauded by many another science teacher. This week a group at Columbia University's Teachers College, led by venerable Progressive Samuel Ralph Powers, began a campaign to reform U. S. science teaching. They published the first of a series of Rockefeller-financed books intended...
Author Alexander, better known for biography (Aaron Burr, Martin Van Buren) has shown he can write a rousing account of the rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins...
Divorce Disclosed. Peter Arno (real name: Curtis Arnoux Peters), 38, clean-cut, cáfe-socialite cartoonist (The New Yorker); by Mary ("Timmie") Lansing, 24, beauteous socialite; her first, his second; in Litchfield, Conn. Grounds: "intolerable cruelty."
Of the members of the crew, James Talcott is now a New York merchant; Henry Meyer and Laurence Curtis are Boston lawyers; Henry and John Middendorf are Baltimore financiers; David Morgan is a New York financier; Charles Lund in a Boston physician; and Henry Kreger is a Cleveland lawyer.