Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undisguised sense of social consciousness permeates the heavy pages of the Advocate from its Lenin-red cover to its poem on the death of a Dutch Communist. Its effort to convince the bawling radicals that Harvard can be as good a guy as the best of them has made for the most readable Advocate in years...
...Varsity race Captain Sam Drury's eight is not expected to retrieve the Compton Cup from the Tiger shell which two weeks ago beat the Penn A. C. But the Crimson is rated as favorite over the Tech eight since Guy Haines, the lightweight stroke, is lost to the Engineers and it is doubtful if they will display the coordination and skill which they showed last week...
...Press, which inquired whether he had returned from his vacation a "tough guy," as he did a year ago, Franklin Roosevelt replied: "Even tougher." But he did not proceed to get really tough with Congress, despite the fact that the legislation waiting for his signature was pitifully meagre: the War Department Appropriation Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer...
Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...
...brilliant guy, very mechanical, he was, and once he has a job with Thomas A. Edison working on phonographs. When he up and left my mother he always acted like a gentleman and told her where he was and sends her some money sometimes. We comes from good stock, Yankee Americans, we are, away back, and I know we got a minister in the family somewheres...