Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At 84, the Gloomy Dean, Britain's Very Rev. W. R. Inge, stepped out of retirement to write a cherrily gloomy piece for London's Evening Standard. His theme: the "Passing of the Country House," that spacious, gracious institution as British as the Marble Arch, mutton pie, or...
Least of all is it for lack of suitors. Laid end to end, the eligible and often famous men who have courted her might reach from the Stork Club to the Mocambo. She has inspired one of them to the century's most poignant heart-cry: "Colby, you are...
Confronted with this shakedown of big shots by big shots, the Government improved upon an old police practice-wheedling small-fry criminals into testifying against bigger ones. Now big shots squealed on big shots. Nicholas Schenck's brother Joe, imprisoned for income-tax evasion, informed on Browne and Bioff...
"Not to be Laughed At." An institution itself, housed in offices as gloomy, well polished, and oak-paneled as any at Whitehall, Punch is in a position to laugh at other Empire institutions. Its personal concession to the war consists of a well-stacked pile of sandbags behind a wall...
All literate, right-thinking Americans know that the first college in the nation to admit women students was Blount College (now the University of Tennessee). William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the Ohio, secured admission of his daughter Barbara, Kittie Kain, Colonel McClung's daughter, and three...