Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most certainly we do not have any unhappy citizens over such a name . . . Some people might pronounce the name Kiss Me but ... the correct pronunciation...
...opening sentence in the story really struck home ... I know just how tired the inhabitants of Kissimmee are of the stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...
...Dana Palmer house was built in 1823. It got the first part of its name from the builders, the Dana family, who lived there for ten years. Richard Henry Dana, the author of "Two Years before the Mast," grew up in the house; his chum James Russell Lowell once tried to ride a pony up the front stairs...
...longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across...
Henry says that he spends more time for the varsity, what with scouting and helping Valpey throw something new at his Yardlings in practice, than on his own team. "I have to use a name chart for weeks--even after, the first game," he laments...