Word: oakleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farewell reception will be held in honor of Professor G. P. Baker '87 tonight in Agassiz Theatre of Radcliffe College at 8.30 o'clock. The reception will follow an informal dinner at the Oakley Country Club...
Triumphant virtue thumps splendidly in the chaste breast of Johanna Oakley, his faithful hoopskirted light-of-love; the gallant thorax of Colonel Jeffrey of the Indian Army, confidant and sub-hero. Thirteen other characters, broadly "in period,' pad out the piece to bursting...
...Lieut. Oakley Kelly, he once flew across the U. S. in a 26-hour non-stop flight, With Kelly he established the world's endurance record, flying over Dayton for 34 hours. Officially Frenchman Lecointe still holds the world's altitude record, but on his last attempt to beat this Macready's barograph registered 43,000 feet and when he landed stiff and frost-bitten from the intense cold many experts were of the opinion that he had actually gone higher than the Frenchman. In addition to a few other records, he has the reputation of being...
...Yale Freshmen at the same time as the University match. E. S. Stimpson, Dwight Barnum, E. D. Cole, Paul Sullivan, Shiras Morris Jr., and J. A. Vogel will compose the Freshman team and will probably play in that order. They have had the advantage of daily practice on the Oakley Country Club course, and Stimpson and Barnum, in particular, have shown remarkable promise so far. Most of the players have had little experience before this year, but they showed consistently accurate play against Water-town, and should stand an even chance of winning
...next evening, the painters and sculptors at the Grand Central Galleries gave a reception to the authors and their guests?and here were Blashfield and Violet Oakley, Grace George and Julia Arthur, and again all the literary folk. President Coolidge. telegraphed cordially?and it was all very significant and, like most significant things, a trifle dull. Significant, too, the absence of the "smart" New York so-called literary crowd. They, apparently, are not willing to be bored. Parlor tricks are more important to them than the honest and frankly sentimental message from John Galsworthy. I mark this as a sign...