Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Momentos of the ascension of James II include elaborate rules for ladies's wear, and descriptions of the fireworks celebrating the occasion. The Duke of Norfolk, in charge of the ceremonies in 1685, ordered the women to wear "petticoats" of "cloath of silver," and to allow their "surcoats to open...
"If my host dined in pajamas, I would wear pajamas. On this occasion my host will wear court dress, and I will wear court dress."
In 1914, after the Suns had run up a frightening deficit under Charles H. Grasty (who succeeded Walter Abell as president of A. S. Abell Co. in 1910), an able financier came to the rescue in the person of Baltimore's Van Lear Black. Hearing whispers that the Suns...
To such financial cynics as Pundit John T. Flynn, securities speculation is the moral and practical equivalent of a crap game. By more moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out...
Now, the question of Mr. Landis's fitness to be Dean has nothing to do with what he thinks about sit-down strikes or the packing of the Court. Those of Harvard's State Street graduates who took de light in snubbing the Dean on the occasion of a recent...