Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement to set up a monument and tablet appropriately inscribed to mark the site of the old Harvard boathouse, which was in constant use from 1869 until the opening of the present Newell boathouse, has been set in motion under the direction of C. A. Coolidge '81. Mr. Coolidge is making the design and had agreed to direct the work...
...colossal husband in this case is Bainbridge Colby, Manhattan lawyer. In fact, history might have neglected Mr. Colby, had he not been needed by certain bigwigs. Mark Twain used him as a lawyer; Theodore Roosevelt needed him as Presidential booster in 1912; Woodrow Wilson made him Secretary of State for the final year, after two others had been tried and found disagreeable. Perhaps Mr. Colby used to say to his wife: "Now if I had been President Wilson...
...would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted...
...that several of our old baseball favorites have been caught on the crest of one of these surges of iniquity, and that Cobb and Speaker are liable to be waived out of the American league we decided that the present side of sin has exceeded its legitimate high water mark. And being a man of prompt action we no sooner decided that American crime had gone too far than we resolved to do something about it. We gave this matter the full benefit of our careful consideration and arrived at several plausible solutions of the problem. Pahily put, our leading...
...telephone service connects, all New England with London and an area around the English metropolis within a radius of 110 miles. The first transatlantic telephone conversation in history took place this month between New York and London, but today's exchange of messages will mark the opening of the first of such systems of communication in this district...