Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOHN JAY CHAPMAN AND HIS LETTERS -M. A. DeWolfe Howe-Houghton Mifflin...
...average American, asked who John Jay Chapman was, might emerge from a mental merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from...
Such men, who combined a classic culture with an interest in public affairs and whose activities seemed to spread effortlessly in all directions at once, are now a disappearing U. S. type. In John Jay Chapman and His Letters the biographer's style, more than faintly George Apley-esque, adds if anything to the museum atmosphere. Made up half of letters and half of commentary, its appeal for most readers will be in the peppery aphorisms of the man himself, scattered through his correspondence: "The essential lack in Wagner is after all a want of sanitary plumbing...
...return to college and assume their duties as cadet officers in the ROTC unit this fall. The class of '38 was represented by John Briggs III, Albert E. Brunelli, John F. Casey, Wallace H. Cox, Edwin C. Davis, Joseph Franklin, John H. Hewitt, John F. P. Hill, Shepard Jerome, Jay W. Kaufmann, Richard G. Labovitz, Francis X. Leary, Lawrence H. Marcus, Joseph F. Nee, William P. O'Connor, Jr., Edward H. Osgood, Jr., Philip N. Stamas, Robert Sullivan, Alfred M. Torrielli
...life have drawn the camera's focus alternately, his financial career and his career with Josie Mansfield. Getting off to a fast start with some able stooging by Grant and Oakie, Arnold appears on his way to another of his masterful, belly-laughing characterizations, this time of the late Jay Gould's spectacular compeer. But enter love. Miss Farmer's rather self-conscious poignancy upsets the emotional possibilities inherent in Fisk's Wall Street development. Then set for a satisfyingly tragic romance amid the triangle of Arnold in love with Farmer in love with Grant in love with Farmer...