Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hutchins commends a plan of former President Lowell to allow each sport only one game a season, and that one to be with the college's natural rival, as can be seen in England in the cases of Oxford and Cambridge. He declared: "Mr. Lowell's scheme might have the merit of enabling students and the public to work off their seasonal frenzy in one big saturnalia...
...rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned by Mr. Hutchins...
...editor of the rowdy Record while his classmate Archibald MacLeish conducted the more pontifical Literary Magazine. His Great American Bandwagon (1928) is a whimsical review of U. S. eccentricities, from ukuleles to kewpie dolls. Ever one to enjoy making the best of a bad situation, Mr. Merz likes to recall that he met his wife after hitting her with a golf ball...
...think that a new day had dawned, they were speedily disabused. Not only did the Federal Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice revealed that it was sniffing monopoly spoor in the building-trade industry; and in Chicago Mr. Arnold's bloodhounds treed the biggest monopoly catch since the oil industry went on trial in Madison year ago-the milk and ice cream industry...
...married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...