Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
Crimson grid squads have never been noted for a surplus, of first rate backs. Endicott Peabody was more of a here than Franny Lee--even starting with the tremendous handicap which his guard position gave him. Torby MacDonald was doubtless a great back, but injuries forced him to make more headlines than yardage against Yale. You have to go back to Vern Struck and even Barry Wood to hit a really top-notch backfield star in a Crimson uniform, and even then fingers were crossed all the time against possible injuries...
Time is growing short for soccer coach James "Mac" MacDonald who sends his free swinging charges into action against WPI Friday. If trends of the times are any indication, the Crimson will field a topnotch squad for that opening clash despite the fact that MacDonald hasn't yet had a chance to instruct his boys in the art of guiding a hard, round ball through enemy goal posts...
Help from Paris. It was 1920 before Canada could boast of anything like an "art movement." Then, led by J. E. H. MacDonald, a handful of painters who were tired of being pushed aside at exhibitions formed the "Group of Seven." Most of them had studied in Paris, picked up a smattering of impressionism but nothing more radical than that. What united them was a love of the Far North where they spent their vacations...
...fight was won. Since 1933, the original Seven had grown to a Group of 28, all of whom caught the fever. But Canada had yet to produce a painter less clumsy, fresher, or more unaffectedly Canadian than Charter Members MacDonald and Harris...