Word: mem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third is an undergraduate with crew haircut. The first recalls the momentous occasion when the walls were dedicated. Another had many...
...another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart of old "Mem...
Miss Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, world president of the Y. W. C. A., arrived in New York last week. Mem ber of a famed Dutch family (her father was a Deputy in the States-General, two of her brothers are in the diplomatic service), she helped organize the Dutch na tional Y. W. C. A. in 1920, headed it from 1926 until 1930 when she became the first Continental president of the World's Council...
...track team which toured South Africa. Voters for the Sullivan Medal like to cite an international athlete when one is available. Of Berlinger's South African exploits, they said: "He did more to spread the gospel of goodwill between America and South Africa than any mem ber of the party, according to Manager Gish."* Other voters called him ''a sterling character . . . innately modest . . . a successful influence for good among the growing generation ... a crack rifle shot...
...Preston has managed (with one ex ception) the Press arrangements at every national convention of both parties this century. He was elected a limited mem ber of the famed Gridiron Club to serve as stage manager and property man at its dinners. When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links. (His own score: no.) He was one of the first radio enthusiasts in Washington. About his home he grows fine roses...