Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened in a week. First day out from Cherbourg, Olivia was bored at the prospect of another comfortable winter in Chicago with her middle-aged husband Harry. She was nearly 40 herself. Suddenly Olivia discovered that Nick, her first husband, was a fellow-passenger. They had not met for ten years, since the divorce. Now Nick was a famous author. Olivia had two more children. They were glad to see each other, got dangerously excited talking over old times...
...Nick, unlike Harry, was a thrilling person to be with-Olivia had forgotten how thrilling. She forgot the embarrassment of the situation, began to believe she was in love again. By the time the boat reached Manhattan Nick had almost convinced her; and she had allowed herself to kiss him. When she further allowed herself, the first night ashore, to meet him at their old trysting place in Gramercy Park, Nick persuaded her to leave Harry and run away with him. But by the time they reached his Vermont farm Olivia had had time and occasion to remember what life...
...Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios...
Honored, Eugene Meyer, Yale 1895, governor of the Federal Reserve Board; with the Montclair Yale Bowl, awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; at the nth annual party of the Montclair (N. J.) Yale Club in "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn."* New award: the Montclair Faculty Plate, to English Professor William Lyon Phelps. 66. The Montclair Scholastic Cup of 1931 goes to Rufus S. Day Jr., 19, Yale senior. Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State under President McKinley...
...Simon that Lawyer Simon is about to jump out of his window. In the meantime Mrs. Simon, a high born lady, has deserted her husband. Fortunately Lawyer Simon's amiable secretary gets back from the ladies' room in time, saves her employer from suicide. Also in the nick of time a millionaire's son kills Mrs. Simon, the erring wife. Lawyer Simon gets renewed faith in life and no little budding interest in his faithful secretary. Actor Muni turns in an extraordinary characterization. More than 20 mummers do their best. But Counsellor-at-Law remains prolix, unsifted...