Word: gould
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Society re-elected its general secretary, Rev. Dr. William Henry Matthews, and its second vice president, plain, plump Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, famed for her riches and good works...
...twelve court-tennis courts in the U. S. In the Racquet Club last week sat as many spectators as Henry's benches would hold watching the final of the U. S. amateur championship between James Van Alen, the titleholder, and young Ogden Phipps. Since Jay Gould, whose father imported the best professionals in the world to teach his son the game, held the U. S. title for 20 years running, the 200 or so able court-tennis players in the U. S. have shown a tendency to drop the jeu classique, their game's characteristic and peculiar chopstroke...
...phaetons, victorias, coaches. Many were painted green-the Brewster green used by modern paint companies. Brewster carriage makers always got good pay, provided they drank no liquor. Top price for a Brewster carriage was $1,450 and Brewster carriages were in the stables of every Vanderbilt, Astor. Auchincloss and Gould. After James Brewster died in 1866 his son Henry carried on the business, branched into automobile bodies in 1907, aviation equipment during the War. The company's century-old reputation for workmanship was undimmed when Rolls-Royce, casting about for a body as good as its chassis, bought Brewster...
...Manhattan, Joseph Ferdinand Gould (Harvard, 1911) celebrated the writing of the 7,300,000th word in his uncompleted book. Oral History of Our Times. Said Writer Gould: "I have used no printed material. I have been at work on it for 15 years and everything in it was transmitted to me by word of mouth. . . . My chapter on freedom and insanity is one of the best. It ends with this sentence: 'I have a delusion of grandeur; I believe myself to be Joe Gould...
...pound class: William B. Cavin, Jr. '37 defeated Gould of Springfield by decision...