Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year filled with the marriages of prodigies-George Herman ("Babe") Ruth to a showgirl; Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the shy, poetic daughter of an Ambassador; James Joseph Tunney to an outdoorish girl descended from one of the great steel families-not the least startling was the marriage of John Gilbert, ballyhooed by millions of shopgirls as the greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female...
...foreign heavyweights" grappled, tugged and heaved. Towering John Pesak had wrestled his way half round the world from Nebraska. Husky Joe Zikmund, billed as the "Polish Pachy-derm," tipped the beam at 218 pounds. Statesman Hughes slipped into his ringside seat just as Poland heaved Nebraska for a mighty thumping fall...
...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
...Married. John Coolidge, 23, of New Haven, Conn., New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. clerk, Major in the .Connecticut National Guard, son of onetime (1923-29) President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; to Florence Trumbull, 24, of Plainville, Conn., daughter of Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut; at Plainville...
...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...