Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate of 35? for three dances. And men who wished to sit out dances with their hostesses could accompany them to a (chaperoned) room off the ballroom, there sit for one hour for $2.80 (of which the girl collected...
Webb, Sidney, erudite Secretary of State for the colonies and dominions. Long nosed, with pince-nez glasses and a pointed chin beard, Sidney Vebb is a noted author, one of Britain's greatest political economists. In these works his partner is his no-less intellectual wife, Beatrice Potter Webb...
Elected. Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, Provost of Johns Hopkins University since 1926, to be President, succeeding Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 64, who announced his resignation more than a year ago. Since that time Johns Hopkins trustees have searched for a man of 40 years or less to be President. Although Dr. Ames, 64, was elected without reservations, trustees will still search for young presidential possibilities...
...Leopold Stokowski, nearest to the zenith among conductors, will direct only half the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts next season, and thereafter less and less...
...warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them all to the dinner. These he put on, one after another-felts, silks, straws, fibres. The hatmen rose in a vote of thanks...