Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
...earnest. But while its concerts swept by with an air of drawing-room dignity, its private meetings and rehearsals seethed with back-bitings, hair pullings. Socialite sponsors quarreled with each other; the women musicians quarreled with Conductress Sundstrom. Several times it looked as if the show could not go on. In 1937, with a deficit of $3,500 on their hands, the orchestra's board of directors elected socialite Mrs. Royden J. Keith president. Mrs. Keith forthwith fired Conductress Sundstrom...
...Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum for an indefinite visit will go the five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...
...Davis will come to Smith as soon as Cornell lets him go; meanwhile Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow* will continue as Smith's acting president. To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had elected Mr. Davis "very enthusiastically." Said he: "In general personality and the scholarly and executive qualities that seemed to be demanded, Professor Davis proved to be just what we wanted...
...Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes and cocktail breaths is known as beagling...