Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founder of this new society had best keep his real identity secret. It is no small matter to fool the hoards of people who read one of Gotham's largest newspapers. New York would probably follow the example of a typical Southern city and administer a coal of far and feathers to the man whose levity has caused it such anxious moments. "Mr. Fillmore's" masterpiece appears to be the best parody since Donald Ogden Stewarts "Cruisn of the Kawa", and an even more subtle piece of work. While New York's liberty is probably safe in this case...
Bishop Alma White, the founder of the Pillar of Fire Church, and an author of various religious works, is President of the institution under the new regime. In an interview for the Princetonian today Bishop White deplored the present indifference of the undergraduate to the Klan and predicted that in the near future "it will sweep through the intellectual student classes as through the masses of the people...
Over the tomb of James Edward Oglethorpe, British general and philanthropist, died 1785, runs no such ultimate appeal. Therefore there was nothing to dissuade Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, founder and President of Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.), from seizing last week the fruits of a search to which he has devoted two years of his time...
General Oglethorpe founded the Colony of Georgia in 1732 by releasing several hundred oppressed Englishmen from London jails and taking them to an asylum in the wilds of America. President Jacobs believed that "the wish of 10,000,000 in the Southland" would be gratified could " their father and founder " be " located," brought to Atlanta, ensconced in a gorgeous mausoleum on Oglethorpe University's campus, " in the bosom of Georgia...
...what of the other object? Here again existing conditions balk any complete attainment of Major Higginson's ideal; while the publications have their own buildings and the musical clubs their rooms, the Union can not hope to be the kind of centre that its founder conceived. But again there has been partial success: lectures, dinners, and committee meetings testify to that. There remains only the problem of the political and "activity" clubs which are anxious to find some centre. But in such cases, with their eyes always on the problem of increasing the club membership, those in charge have generally...