Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witless, but spreading like wildfire, is a Palladium war tune, Run Rabbit Run.* Celebrities in the audience, such as Beatrice Lillie or Ivor Novello, have been yanked up on the stage to bray it out. Novello, composer of World War I's Keep the Home Fires Burning, has written a new marching song, We'll Remember the Meadows, which will be introduced at the opening of his new show next week...
...University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer. Not to be outdone, Yale announced that it had bagged University of London's famed Polish Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Busy Yalelings began to heel the News, lazy ones to loaf along...
...three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related to him-the Viscount's father married Lord Balniel's wife's cousin's aunt-as are at least four more Tory M.P.s-Major Oscar Guest, Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, their nephew, Ivor and Minister of Transport Captain the Rt. Hon. David Euan Wallace...
...Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, noted for his writings on literary criticism, aesthetics and logic, has been appointed University Lecturer effective next September...
...summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...