Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keith Gledhill, tall, blond-haired Stanford University sophomore: the intercollegiate tennis championship; beating Bruce Barnes of Texas, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 in the finals at Haverford...
...fortnight ago Sir Arthur Keith remarked: "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning and war is her pruning hook." This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
...writers who can monkey with fantasy without getting just too cute for words. Inimitable Max Beerbohm managed it; some still think Sir James Matthew Barrie, Alan Alexander Milne. Christopher Morley have made surprisingly few errors. Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment. Not that Author Marshall cannot be very sharp on occasion, but, like the latter-day Chesterton, he is sharp only with non-Catholic things...
...elevator starter in the Keith Building, Cincinnati, who won $50,000. After hearing a radio description of the race, he said to his wife: "Well, honey, I must be hurrying along now and go to work...
...Lambs Club last summer (TIME, July 7) pessimists might see in the N. V. A. club-house's closing another indication of the paupery of the theatrical profession. Bu the N. V. A. club has always run an annual deficit. For years Edward Franklin Albee variety tycoon (Keith-Albee), footed thi losses until his death in 1930. A recent drive to get members to pay their bad bills amassed some $60,000, insufficient to keep the place open. It will probably b turned into a hotel...