Word: loon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little bird dropped the hint into the CRIMSON's car last night that none other than Loon Trotsky, excommunicated Soviet leader, is now in Boston, travelling incognito...
...following members of the Class of 1934 received awards: Robert Lee Behrens, Robert Berner, Gove Griffith Johnson, William Hastings Korr, David Loob Krupsaw, George Joseph Lasinsky, David Levin, John Maier, Loon Merz, Edward Peter Papalia, John Barzillai Rackliffe, Burton Henry Tarplin, Dudley Albert Weiss, Simon Louis Weker...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: At a formal dinner of the American Women's Club in Paris at which he was guest of honor. Writer Hendrik Willem Van Loon appeared in a business suit, said that a dentist to whom he owed $720 had not sent him a bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney...
...having run off with the funds of the party, such as they were. Before one dismisses too lightly the chance of resurrection, one should cast a glance at the humble beginnings of the Nazi party, which all Germany thought squelched after the ridiculous beer-hall putsch, when a peculiar loon named Hitler jumped on a table, fired three shots into the ceiling, and proclaimed the Revolution, whose end came a few moments later with the arrival of government troops. CASTOR...
...Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times in the 1905 World Series...