Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with great pleasure that I enclose herewith the card sent to me for my signature in connection with your new monthly volume. . . . You may enter me as an Original Subscriber and send me a bill for ten dollars. Whatever TIME gets out is bound to be worth while. My name is spelled CHISOLM-not CHISHOLM. B. OGDEN CHISOLM...
Having recovered from my conflict with the Nordie on the steps of Fogg. I was next approached by a little gamin by the name of Joe Forecast Jr., who apparently is a denizen of Plympton Street...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...
...grateful recognition of your brotherly care of William F. Donovan, which exemplifies your whole-hearted services to Harvard Athletics", and the name of the coach...
...again this year, the Browns have earned second place. There are, however, 46 now listed in both sections, as compared with only 37 last year. A newcomer in the ranks, the tribe of Johnson, has captured third place showing a tremendous jump from years past. In 1928, the name was not even listed among the most popular, while now it has reached a glorious third, tied only by the Whites, of an old and well-established family. They too were not on the list of frequent names listed in last year's Directory...