Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After dinner at 5:30 comes CCC's fun and education. Until taps at 10 p.m., four in ten CCCers take vocational instruction in everything from Diesel engine operation to drawing; three in ten study mathematics and other academic subjects. They also have organized sports, camp papers and CCC's weekly Happy Days, published in Washington, as well as other recreations common to young men who distinctly are neither uniformed angels nor devils...
...Gosh, we have more fun backstage!" Miss Wiman--"Trink" to her intimates--exclaimed, "the kids are so darn swell. And Durante, he's just the sweetest guy. If anybody gets mad at him, it just breaks his heart. Why, he'll do anything to patch up a squabble. So now, whenever we want him to do anything for us, we just pretend to be sore...
John Wesley Hanes, 46, is a well-dressed, fun-loving North Carolina squire. The Haneses of Winston-Salem, N. C. are many and substantial. John Wesley is one who, after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...
...great deal has been written about the dearth of the "snap course," and the fact that college today is not what it used to be in the way of three parts fun to one part work. If true, it is fortunate for the future of education here that his ancient inordinate proportion has been broken down. The "fun" is a consideration necessary only in such a degree as to give a student proper mental and physical balance. But the President saw more than "fun" in extracurricular activity. He is evidently aware of the possible value of such work not only...