Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual meeting in New York Thursday evening, Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French Literature, delivered an address on "The Problem of Style in a Democracy." The meeting was largely given ever to the celebration of the 80th birthday of Dr. Henry van Dyke, noted author and clergyman...
...seems inevitable that Calvin Coolidge must some day become president of a great life insurance company. For four months it looked as if the company would be Northwestern Mutual, whose trustees began trying in June to agree on a successor to the late President William Duncan Van Dyke, who died June 7. Last week with a message in his hand a trustee left the board room on the fifth floor of Northwestern's marble headquarters in Milwaukee. Instead of going out to a telegraph office he walked down a single flight of broad stairs, down a long corridor...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...
...CREELFUL OF FISHING STORIES ? Henry van Dyke ? Scribner ($2.50 ). Fish-stories from Plutarch to the present, edited by a lucky patriarch...
Many a non-Harvardite visited Hollis 15: John Barrymore, Christopher Morley, Alexander Woollcott, Henry Major Tomlinson. Henry Van Dyke, and the late Mrs. Fiske who received a famed note, "Minnie: Come to Copey's" and came forthwith. To young fellows "Copey" could be crushing. Two years ago saucy Tom Prideaux, editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, went up to look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust...