Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...Harold S. Kemp, instructor in Geography, took up the cudgels in favor of Provincetown over Plymouth, but, he said, "the Pilgrims stayed there only two or three days because the Indians were not yet in the tourist business...
...Harold Goodman. British vice consul at San Sebastian in Rightist Spain, arrived at the border town of Trim last week on his way to France. The customs officers of Generalissimo Francisco Franco passed his diplomatic pouches but searched his unofficial baggage thoroughly. Well they might, for Vice Consul Goodman's baggage contained some very interesting items. Wrapped in one of his dirty shirts they found: 1) a collection of maps giving the positions of Rightist troops; 2) detailed reports of disaffection in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; 3) a list of 200 of the Generalissimo's spies operating...
...next picture (an all-talkie), first in three years, before January 15. Chaplin wrote the story, will act two parts, one his famed tramp. Title: The Dictator. In Germany, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt charged that Chaplin had been "commissioned" to make the film by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (see p. 5), as "propaganda against a State with which the United States is at peace...
Last week, fearing that intolerance is spreading over the world so rapidly that little time is left to head it off, New York City's Board of Education decided to try a short cut, ordered tolerant Superintendent Harold George Campbell to begin teaching tolerance at once. To the principals of the city's 1,000 schools, Superintendent Campbell promptly sent an order to teach tolerance to the city's 1,250,000 school children twice each month. Principals are to hold school assemblies describing the contributions of all races and nationalities...