Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become owner of the Cup which stands on a card table beside the court during the final and which, for the last two years, has merely been handed to him to fondle for newsreel cameramen before watchful U. S. L. T. A. officials restored it to its Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham vault. To take the $500 silver Cup away from Forest Hills, a U. S. champion tennist must win the tournament three times. Since the late William A. Larned, who held the championship seven times, won his second Cup in 1910, only one player has actually got his hands...
...consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts and underwear, only asked that he let it be discreetly known where he got them. Black, Starr & Frost provided watches and cigaret-cases. Mrs. Clarence Mackay got her husband to let him send Postal telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads. He advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires...
Miss Caroline Ford, Radcliffe '35, of Cambridge, has been awarded the Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400 for merit in the field of American Literature for her essay, "The Less Traveled Road, A Study of Robert Frost." It is the first time in several years that the prize has not been awarded to a Harvard contestant. Honorable mention was given to Edwin M. Snell '35 of Grand Rapids, Michigan for an essay, "The Modern Fables of Henry James...
Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
Died. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 68, famed blind astronomer, longtime director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., editor for 32 years of The Astrophysical Journal; of peritonitis following a gallstones operation; in Chicago. Dr. Frost's greatest achievements were in the mechanics of stargazing, in spectroscopic technique whereby are calculated the diameters, masses, densities, speeds and directions of stars. During his lifetime and partly through his labors, the known cosmos multiplied from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies...