Word: oshkosh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates at Cornell pack Bailey Hall for concerts, they provide a moderately large audience at the Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...
Obviously a notable trunk improvement, the wardrobe trunk was well received; soon other companies were making trunks of the wardrobe type. For a time, Innovation, the pioneer, remained the leader. Eventually, however, Oshkosh, Hartmann and other trunk companies became more potent in the field. Finally, in 1924, Innovation had a renovation. Inventor Bonsall turned over the direction of the company to its present head, Anthony J. Trentacoste, who has been an Innovation trunk-man for 22 years and is responsible for the present expansion policy. Mr. Bonsall is now Director of International Interests of the Dewatered Products Combination, a chemical...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Theodore Borutski, onetime German soldier, owner of an iron cross, stated that he wished to change his last name to Roosevelt. Not in honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...
...Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard Oil Co. of New York...
Spectators, players alike tittered at Walter Hagen, who was working for a news syndicate. A few days before, Hagen started from Oshkosh, Wis., for Menomonie, Wis., drove instead to Menominee, Mich., 300 miles distant, failed to keep an exhibition match appointment, had to apologize by telephone for his stupid error...