Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeremy Belknap prize of $50, for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College, to Martin J. Lydon '40, of Lowell...
...Alaska everybody who is anybody knows who Martin Slisco is. North of the Arctic Circle 200 miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph...
...Wiseman one has quit her husband, gone off to the creeks with a prospector. Eskimo wives are not frequently faithful. But the Arctic nights are long and a wife can be mighty useful. Putting on his Chachaqua "outside" clothes, leaving Alaska for the first time in 29 years, Martin Slisco, a U. S. citizen since 1929, went back to his childhood home in Jugoslavia last Christmas. He saw his mother for the first time in 40 years and went with her to the church, bride-hunting. He looked over 30 girls who knew why he had come, but found none...
...Would Martin Slisco divorce his wife if he finally could not get her out of Jugoslavia? "Divorce? What for? Jugoslavia - he's a long way from Wiseman. Divorce? No. We just call him quits...
Philip H. Bagby, Jr. '39; James W. Cassidy '39; Richard M. Chadbourne '39; William P. Everts, Jr. '39; DeWitt Fischman '39; James C. Kernan '38; John F. Lucey, Jr. '39; H. W. Martin '38; R. B. Mudge '39; J. Stanley Nants, Jr. '39; John H. Perry '39; Rodney T. Robertson '39; Aleck L. Smith '39; and Stuart M. Wyeth...