Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MARSHAL Bernard Barnes Wallace Russell Harper Gardner Lothrop Lewis James Elmer Barrett Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr. Thomas Frothingham Mason Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey William Potter Lage Josiah Warren Potter FOR TREASURER John Cross II Arthur Lithgow Devens James Roosevelt FOR ORATOR Gerald Wallace Harrington Robert Hayden Jones Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg FOR CHORISTER Bernard David Hanighen William Frost Mann Charles Matthew Underhill James Lindsay Ware FOR IVY ORATOR Edward Trumbull Batchelder Albert Goodwill Churchill FOR POET Douglas Payne Adams Robert Meader Easton Theodore Hall, Jr. Frederick William McNear, Jr. Harrison McGowan Parker FOR ODIST Robert Swain Morison Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene
...with the commissioned opera. His first choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose, short story by his one-time (New York World) colleague Columnist Heywood Broun. Last spring he announced that he had shelved Candle in favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director...
...Castle, Del., where the whipping post contrasts strangely with a "model'' prison system. Warden Elmer Joseph Leach, denouncer of whippings which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes...
...wind things up properly Driver Cooke gave a dinner. Beside him sat Chancellor Samuel Paul Capen, son of Elmer Hewitt Capen (onetime Tufts College President), acquired with the new campus in 1922. Stirringly spoke Trustee Cooke: "You are going to be the keepers of the city's honor in your lifetime." Of Chancellor Capen's predecessor he said: "Think of good old Charley Norton, serving with unflagging energy and faith for so many years! Maybe somewhere he is listening in tonight...
Last week when Elmer Ambrose Sperry Jr., who with his father, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, developed and perfected the stabilizer, brought the Ford to Long Island with three companions, the stabilizer had guided the ship for nearly 60 trial hours. It seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...