Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most skippers like to have two weeks or more to get acquainted with strange winds and tides. Skipper Nichols, however, arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once...
...patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
Last week the Detroit Symphony, needing $75,000 to complete a $280,000 budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families, headed by such men as Senator James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits...
...Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse and his talent with open admiration; celebrities from far and near beat a path to his door...
Clews's Jekyll-&-Hyde sculpture falls into two utterly unrelated groups: 1) Rodinesque portrait busts and vitriolic caricatures (of the human race in general or friends in particular), generally in bronze; 2) grotesques-like Jan, King of the Jins of La Napoule-usually in polished red and green porphyry. Always a competent sculptor, he showed to best advantage when he chiseled the monsters of his own imagination...