Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Henry Ford so near, Ford of Canada's President Wallace R. Campbell might as well be right in the Dearborn offices. But the other leading representative of Ford abroad lives and works in reasonable independence. Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, the precise, erect, hard-driving chairman of Ford of England, is really Mr. Ford's General European Manager. On his board sit men like the Baron Illingworth of Denton, P. C., and Sir John Thomas Davies, K. C. B., C. V. O., but Sir Percival takes his orders from Dearborn, where rests Ford of England...
...thoroughgoing rebuke to Editor Guy for slipshod reporting, in neglecting to mention that The Green Pastures company had offered to erect its own dressing-room tent outside the school...
...Yorkers who in 1883 built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate...
...cannot pass minimum dancing requirements the first year, he keeps on plodding around with the "elephant squad" until he can. Dancing Master Vizay-"The Professor" to his charges-spent four months every year at the Academy, where his father had taught dancing before him, was a stickler for erect carriage, measured glide and strict ballroom decorum. Off duty, he was a great favorite with the Point's baseball fans. His encyclopedic knowledge of the affairs of the major leagues complemented an equally amazing acquaintance with vital statistics of the American Association. ''The Professor" was for many years...
...adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...