Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in the fall of 1874, "Bill" Taft, aged 17, arrived from Cincinnati at New Haven to join 132 other youngsters in making up that year's freshman class, there was born within him a loyalty and devotion to Yale that grew stronger and deeper with the passing of each of his 72 years. He knew his whole class; his whole class knew him as the son of Alphonso Taft, '33, the brother of Charles, '64, and Peter, '67 Taft. In his sophomore year his father became, first, President Grant's Secretary...
...John Reed, young Harvard poet, went to Russia in 1918 to join the Soviet Revolution, died of typhus, was given a state burial just outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow...
...Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join. The voyage of discovery took more than two months: from Aug. 3 to Oct. 12. The first land sighted was an island called by the Indians Guanahani: geographers today think it was Watling Island. Columbus believed it was one of the East Indies; when he came to Cuba, decided it was the continent...
...attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles. And there is Ruth Etting, a pensive blonde who sings one of the best tunes Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ever wrote ? "I Still Believe You.'' Children will hugely enjoy Simple Simon; their elders may profitably join them...
...William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers who have signed contracts are famed Basso Ivar Andresen and German Soprano Frieda Leider, now with the Chicago Civic Opera and presumably not to join the Metropolitan until 1931. A possibility, too, is Soprano Eleanor Steele, 20, of Mansfield, Ohio...