Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for some months during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain...
...Hollywood, Cinema Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (Thin Man, Naughty Marietta) went bowling for the first time, forgot to let go of the bowl. Towed like the tail of a comet half way down the alley, he rose with a sheepish face, a sprained...
HENRY VAN DYKE-Tertius van Dyke-Harper...
...biography of a man of letters, the career of Henry van Dyke (The Story of the Other Wise Man) is one of the most ironic in the history of U. S. culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke...
Henry van Dyke was born in 1852 in Germantown, Pa., son of an old, conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels...