Word: nat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death in 1891, his widow switched to legitimate shows...
...should have recognized that the peculiarities of speech quoted by Mrs. Benner are not of Ohio but of Kentucky where the Briarhopper speech is filled with these and more that are far worse like "nat" for "night" and "hit" for "it." All this is Briarhopper, pure and unadulterated. This peculiar dialect is a mixture of the Southern and strangely enough the Cockney of England. The Cockney is very evident when the speech is heard and the inflection can noted. Many Kentuckians have moved over to Ohio to work its rich farmlands and to find employment in its many factories...
Fernald won both hurdles, the broad jump, and tied for first in the high jump. Ogle took the hundred, Light-body the 440, Eugene Clark the mile, Lloyd Milis the 220, Childs the half, Shallow the hammer, Ed Ford the javelin, and Nat Heard the shot put. Only Exeter first was registered by Rendleman in the discus...
When the Freshman track team meets Andover away this afternoon it will be endeavoring to avenge this winter's very close defeat. With Lightbody in the quarter, George Downing and Nat Heard in the shot, Fred MacIsaac in the pole vault, and former Phillipian Ed Childs in the half the first year men have a fifty-fifty chance to win, though their chances will be jeopardized by the temporary absence of star hurdler Mason Fernald...
...annexing their tenth straight victory, the Freshmen also broke two Freshman pool records. Eric Cutler swam the 200-yard free stroke in 2:05, one second under Bill Kendall's record. Bill Rines swam the 100-yard breast stroke in 1:12, cutting 1.2 seconds off Nat Lemke's previous record...