Word: gerould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hewitt and his aides, Hoyt Ecker 48 and Daniel C. Gerould, were sure that the solid beat of the washboards could make love easy even at Wellesley. "If the UN had only known of us, things might be different," were Ecker's words as he swung into his Marmon. With a hand on the throttle, he added cryptically, "Jelly Roll has that something that Wellesley needs...
...grammar-defying "This is me" (a usage that H. L. Mencken, in The American Language, has already admitted to "conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English"). Said Yale's Robert D. French: men like Churchill make the English language. Seconded Princeton's Gordon H. Gerould: idiomatic English is good speech, prissy English is not. Said Columbia's Raymond M. Weaver: "A cheer for Mr. Churchill...
Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine...
Cambridge Councillors present were: Joseph J. Cassidy, Russell Gerould, John Lynch, Marcus Morton, Jr., Michael Neville, Hyman Pill, Francis L. Sennott, and Michael A. Sullivan...
...Mayer John D. Lynch, John H. Corcoran '18., Russell Gerould '20. Mareus Morton, Jr. '21 L. And A. John Serene, who have all received the blessings of Dean Landis in this campaign, are among the nine men leading the field so far. Acting Mayor Francis L. Sennott is top ma with 2519 first-choice votes, followed by Lynch and Corcoran...