Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening I brought to the dinner Harold Hersey* at that time editor of Ace-High Magazine. The evening was a very entertaining one and quite noisy. Mr. Hersey turned to "Casey" Jones and said, "Well, you fellows certainly are noisy when you get together but you are quiet when anyone asks you to talk about your flying exploits. Just a bunch of quiet birdmen...
...Harold Hersey refers to this incident in his book Pulpwood Editor...
Like the majority of U. S. oyster-chewers, Secretary of the Interior Harold lakes has scrupulously eschewed oysters in R-less months. But last week, with the Fisheries Bureau, which believes in year-round oyster-eating, transferred to his department, he let it be known (to the deep satisfaction of the A. F. E. O. I. A. M. Y. W. T.*): "If the Fisheries Bureau is for oysters in summer, Ickes is for oysters, first, last and all the time...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
...played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement: his 382-year-old school's uniform is to be junked. Repton's boys, said he, are to be soundly and sensibly reclothed...