Word: oed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to establish a quasi-official enterprise...
Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...
...wash my feet.' And I would answer, 'Why, that's according to the contract, Dan'l.' And he would say other nice things to me. He told me he was a better man for having lived with me. Dan'l seemed sort o' mellowed all those last years...
Last week through the bare boles of the trees, past the stocky, red-brick buildings of Pomfret School, a sombre hearse made its way. As it must to all men, Death had come to Headmaster William Beach Olmsted, whom Pomfret boys have affectionately, awesomely known as "Mr. O" for 32 years. Pomfret boys knew that he was not leaving the school as he had found...
...dignified his institution with the name Pomfret School in 1899. Ten years later his brother, Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted of Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as became a Good Eastern School. A $135,000 Romanesque chapel, the gift of Trustee E. Walter Clark, was brought stone by stone, slate by slate from England. In keeping, Mr. O made his 140 boys wear starched white collars when they went within to worship...