Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert John County at 19 got a job as clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. He soon knew more about its history than any other employe and "Ask County" became a Pennsylvania byword. In 1920 the hardworking, good-natured Irishman was elected a director of the road. For the past...
Since Quincy Howe became editor of Simon & Schuster, that industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every...
Last week, Grofe's latest composition, a ballet called Cafe Society, was given its first hearing in Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen...
One of Manhattan's best-known buildings is the neo-Gothic tower of funereal black brick, topped by a gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons...
The entirely unexpected and libelous attack upon Virginia football by one "Tack" Hardwick strikes us as creating exactly the opposite impression from the one he grimly set about to establish. . . . Hardwick served to place Harvard in an unsportsmanlike position by his vicious attack; of the interchange of "cracks" it was...