Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion that Harvard dig more deeply into its corporate packet and allocate funds for a new purpose, is always suspect on grounds of practicability--however laudable the project may be. Occasionally, however, the phenomenon of a constructive reform which is also inexpensive, comes to light; and in the need for a Center of Romance Civilization, such a combination is to be found...
...barracks distant from their homes. "If I take men from their homes and families it is for their own and their children's good!" shouted the General. "I take everything! I need everything! . . . We shall go on economizing. He who throws away the tinfoil of a cigaret packet is a dirty dog! . . . I hear that some people without public spirit are hoarding banknotes. Let them be warned that these might be repudiated overnight!" The speech was on such a plane of fury that it sounded as if the No. 2 Nazi wanted more than war upon Czechoslovakia which...
Died. Viscount St. Davids, 77, financier; in London. His severe criticism of a reorganization of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., proposed by the late Lord Kylsant (his brother and the company's chairman), was followed by an investigation which resulted in Lord Kylsant's being imprisoned for issuing false financial reports...
...Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. For yokels: It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible, All we want is a packet of fags* when our hands are idle...
Died. Florence Griswold, 86, "foster-mother" of the American Barbizon School of Painters; after long illness; in Old Lyme, Conn. "Miss Florence's" great grandfather and grandfather were both governors of Connecticut; her father was Captain Robert Griswold of the London packet Ocean Queen. Boarders in her stately, elm-shaded house in the early 1900s included Chauncey Ryder, Henry W. Ranger, Childe Hassam, Clark Voorhees, other U. S. Impressionists. Last year when she became too poor to keep her house, former New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert McCurdy Marsh bought it, gave her a free lease for life...