Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon against each other fall, have one thing in common. Both are seasoned joiners and good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than his brother Hale, who appears in small movie parts, usually as the smugly successful business executive not adverse...
...this spirit of opening the road to peace that Professor Wild addressed the Peace Institute group in Phillips Brooks House yesterday. For a clean and intelligent study of the problem is far more effective than bloody revolutions on Widener steps or Memorial delta. The discussion of the influences that work for war, and the part the individual can play in fighting them, such as by political pressure, peace propaganda, and continuous self-education in the field of international events, is the most successful handling of the subject that Harvard has seen in many years. And a sober and clear-headed...
...LESS ambitious a middle-westerner is Wisconsin's and Sigma Nu's Nick Grinde. Nick was a hard-working journalist and Sigma Delta pledge at Wisconsin, but his work in the Union shows there made him set his mind on one single thing, motion pictures. In 1915 Grinde cooled his heels waiting to see a famous director to ask him for a job. He gave up waiting and took to the greasepaint road as Chic Sale's publicity manager. Years later Nick was directing Joan Crawford in a picture. One of the extras was the once-famous director. Grinde...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...
...delta rising, the isthmus widening...