Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English-he's got to stand for something. A deep-hearted old jingo, tough as an acorn. Hearts of oak-wasn't that an old song? The acorn-heart of England. Ships, of course, and exports; that will be his business. An oak can stand for three hundred years, but this man is old. Have to get a big scene to bring out his fibre. Well, say he's in trouble with his stockholders; they don't like the way he's running the company, want him to resign, but he thinks he can diddle...
...Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator, Rev. Dr. Roy E. Vale of Oak Park, I11., countered with the fact that Dr. Thompson is a man of lowly origin whom, but for "the clammy hand of death," Mr. Bryan himself would have arisen to describe as one with whom "the integrity of the gospel would be absolutely safe." When thoughtless Dr. George A. Sevier...
...wondering if they wanted the correct spelling of his name for his diploma, or something. "Buck" Halperin, another footballer, captain for next fall, followed Al and Sam. So did Lawrence ("Larry") Forster, baseball captain; so did Arthur ("Art") Bramhall, star pitcher; so did Edwin Fogarty, social light; Millard Meyers, Oak Park funnyboy; the two popular Hadfield boys, Bill and Bud-and many another. It was a veritable procession of Oak Park notables, 51 of the leading boy students...
...forbidding the existence of fraternities and secret societies in public high schools. The 51 suspended leaders were all offenders against this law, of which the purpose is to stamp out snobbishness and secret practices, and of which parents are duly apprised by letter upon their sons' entrance at Oak Park High. All 51 had joined societies-four different Greek-letter brotherhoods that persistently, furtively, hugged their insignia and traditions despite attacks three years ago and in 1916, when Principal McDaniel was installed at Oak Park to stamp them out. A detective had been employed to "get the goods...
According to the colorful Chicago Tribune, "By noon it was a dreary place, the campus of the high school. Many girls were crying, and some boys." There was a critical ball game scheduled for that day and virtually the whole Oak Park team was "fired." Some of the 51 went into legal conference to get a special injunction restraining the school board from taking action until after graduation day. Others went to other schools, tried to enroll and finish their year's work. Principal Mc-Daniel refused to comment. Board President George Harvey Jones said: "There is nothing sensational...