Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Diman was a rugged, ruddy Episcopal minister of a fashionable Rhode Island summer church. In 1896 he decided to become a schoolmaster. He had one master and eleven pupils when he started "Diman's School for Small Boys" in Newport, R.I. Gradually his posh Newport parishioners sent him their sons. Twenty years later, when Headmaster Diman retired, St. George's (as the school had been renamed) had 120 boys, a sizable debt, and a sizable scholastic reputation...
...Four Hundred" was getting back into form of a sort. Saddened by the New York Social Register's elephantiasis, anonymous socialites (who seemed to favor the Newport set) prepared to sniff the Register out of countenance with the new Almanac of Society. Population...
...tutored Bob at home until he was ten. Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner and a doer...
...delegation, which abstained from voting (but not from lobbying and talking) on the issue, promised to abstain in a realer sense when the commission decides between U.S. sites. The British want Boston (Irish population 40%), which gives it a lead over Philadelphia, Flushing Meadows, Newport, St. Louis and San Francisco. The UNO will insist that it be given an enclave for the site; this would mean that part of the selected city would no longer be part...
...From Newport, Ark., a farmer wrote a letter to the nonexistent "Atomic Bomb Co." of Oak Ridge, Tenn.: "I have some stumps in my field that I should like to blow out. Have you got any atomic bombs the right size for the job? If you have let me know by return mail, and let me know how much they cost. I think I should like them better than dynamite...