Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Craig has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for exceptionally meritorious service in France. Captain Spence was the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army during the war. Captain Wogan comes to the University with a brilliant war record. All of these men play polo, and are interested in the development of the game among students at Harvard...
...Bryan carefully placed a chair for his expected visitor and left wide open the door of the executive office, a large hideous chamber, papered green and with a metallic ceiling embossed with a design of palm leaves, cornucopias and parallelograms. The Governor's mahogany conference table is so placed that he sits in a swivel chair in a sort of a stall formed by his rolltop desk, a small table and the large one. He placed the chair, in which he intended Gen. Dawes to sit, at the open end of this space. Then the General entered...
...Barclay H. Warburton, Jr., of Philadelphia. His grandfather was the founder of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. His father continued as publisher of the paper. His mother was a daughter of John Wanamaker. The son, Barclay H., Jr., is a young man, curly-haired, fond of dancing, who frequently visits Palm Beach. He came to the gumchewers...
...with the plague of usher-tipping; that particular institution, very fortunately, is wholly French. But there are barbers in America, and hat-check girls, and boot-blacks, and waiters, and a whole host of black-eyed banditti whose entire stock in trade is a hypnotic countenance and an irritated palm. If Mr. Van Dyke can only find the opportunity and the strength of character to extend his magnificent principle to take in all these special cases, his claim to the everlasting gratitude of the down-trodden bourgeois will be assured...
...book, a 300 page novel of society life in Boston and at Palm Beach, was begun three years ago in Professor Hurlbut's course of composition, English 31. It was continued under Dean Briggs in English 5. Henry has also been advised and assisted in his work by the famous novelist, Mr. Owen Wister '82, and by Mr. Robert Cutler '16, the author of two recent novels, "Louisburg Square" and "The Speckled Bird...