Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designs such important ones as the five-volume King James Bible, drives a shrewd bargain with printers and illustrators, runs his swanky Madison Avenue offices like an efficiency expert. Within walking distance is his Park Avenue home, where he lives with the pretty mother of his Linda, 7, his Jonathan, 1. He races to his office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production of imitation limited editions at $2.50 a copy. Also last year he bought control of England...
...literary clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that publishers talk down to them...
...their own choosing and those who were not admitted to House and are forced to spend their days regretting that fact. The latter are clearly the more deserving, and a great deal of printer's ink, ranging from suggestions in these columns to a more recent plagiarism of Jonathan Swift, has been expended in their behalf. The University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop...
After the style of Jonathan Swift's famous suggestion that the children of Ireland be eaten by the rich in order to relieve the poverty of that country, "A Modest Proposal" was circulated throughout the College yesterday which substituted the "outhousers of Claverly, Dudley, etc." for the Irish infants...
...Friday afternoon. Lowell beat Pierson 14-0 in a game featured by the two brilliant runs of Mel Gordon. The Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...