Word: gould
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Van Alen, 30, of New York: the U. S. court tennis championship, 2-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final against the Defending Champion William C. Wrright of Philadelphia; with Jay Gould, long the best player in the world, watching; in Philadelphia...
...Board of Aldermen. Joseph Hergesheimer was staying with James H. R. Cromwell. Arthur Somers Roche ate buffet dinner with Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Countess Edith di Zoppola visited the Harrison Williamses. The English nobility was represented by the Honorable Moya Beresford (great granddaughter of the late, notorious Jay Gould), the highly eligible Duke of Sutherland and Earl of Warwick. Last week all three said they were hugely enjoying the season. Members of the Artists & Writers Golf Association were guests at a ping-pong tournament in the ballroom of the Breakers...
...declare officially that the country contains two kinds of Negroes-poor Southern country Negroes and less poor Northern city Negroes. Northern Negroes show more tuberculosis than Southern Negroes. The Association is attacking Northern conditions first-upon advice of its special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
...cupid-encrusted office at No. 32 Nassau St., Manhattan, where Jay Gould used to play financial chess with railroads for queens, hulking old Leonor Fresnel Loree has sat growling into his beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell...
Though Author James Gould Cozzens is not yet 30 he has already hung up a U. S. literary record: his last two novels have been Book-of-the-Month Club choices. A little over a year ago it was S. S. San Pedro; this week it is The Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move...