Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered last week which one had killed the elephant. Mr. Davison, the American Museum of Natural History's new president, had cabled from Africa, where he and his wife are hunting specimens for the museum's new Akeley African Hall, under the guidance of the Africa-wise Martin Elmer Johnsons: "Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators to include four elephants (small enough...
...Pitcher Hubbell's 18-inning shut-out against the Cardinals was not included in his record of 46. It began two weeks later in St. Louis when he pitched the last three innings of a game that caused St. Louis' famed Third Baseman Pepper Martin to remark: "They shouldn't bother to put the home plate down when that guy is working." Stringy, taciturn, a contradiction of the baseball superstition that left-handed pitchers are mentally erratic, it took Pitcher Hubbell a long time to start working at all. Detroit scouts discovered him pitching for a minor...
...Irked by the fact that gasoline in his State has jumped from 12? to 22½? a gallon in the past month, Governor Martin of Washington filed suit against 17 oil companies last week, challenging their right to do business in the State, charging them with conspiracy in forming a monopolistic pool and demanding the appointment of a receiver to take over their Washington properties. Included" in the charge were Standard Oil of California, Richfield, Shell, Texas Corp...
...airplanes. The first two of six flying boats, larger than any aircraft heretofore constructed in the U. S., are now abuilding for Pan American. From the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, which will produce three of the boats, the first will emerge for flight tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they could fly regularly...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...