Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
...introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the metabolic disorders. Dr. Allen was the first to set up a special shop, the Physiatric Institute, in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Calif. (1926) and James Winn Sherrill, 39, at La Jolla, bayside suburb of San Diego, Calif...
...Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Otto Kafka, student flyer, spun the propeller of his plane without blocking the wheels. As the plane sailed over his head Kafka grabbed the tail, was carried dangling in the air to a height of five feet where he dropped to the ground. After a few gyrations the plane crashed...
...Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg of New York City, a graduate of Middlesex School, was elected Orator of the Senior Class. He was one of the founders of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, whese exhibitions are shown at intervals throughout the winter. The position of Odist was won by Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene, of New York City. He prepared at the Blake School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is prominent as Pegasus of the Advocate. Douglas Payne Adams of Charlestown, was elected Poet. A graduate of Boston English High School, he was a member of his Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa...
...William, Potter Lage 110 Thomas Frothingham Mason 103 NEW CONSTITUTION In Favor 163 Majority 23 ORATOR Edward M. M. Warburg 107 Robert Hayden Jones 104 Gerald Wallace Harrington 78 CHORISTER *Bernard David Hanighen 99 *James Lindsay Ware 98 Charles Matthew Underhill 57 William Frost Mann 36 ODIST *Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene 177 Robert Swain Morison 103 *Elected