Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dillingham hospitality (long a bachelor, he married Miss Louise Gaylord of Chicago) that he is known as the "host of Hawaii." Few able visitors arrive in the Islands without a letter...
...Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
...Ellen Gaylord, young and pretty, teaches arithmetic in the Park School, Cleveland. As teaching careers go she has not been at it very long, but long enough to find out that the phenomenon of two and two equaling four is dull dumplings to young minds. You have to bring two and two to life somehow if you want to hear four discussed at recess. . . . Last fortnight Teacher Gaylord invited some fathers and mothers to her classroom, in the morning. In front seats, grinning, sat a picked team of 15, her best mathematicians from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher...
...figurers went to the blackboard in pairs?a father, a pupil. Teacher Gaylord, crouched on her chair between them, snapped out the problems...
...pupils won the game, eight matches to seven. Fathers explained to mothers: "I was all out of practice." Mothers consoled fathers: "Never mind. The children will never get out of practice after being trained by that Teacher Gaylord...