Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before affixing his neat signature to this confession. Dr. Kelly added a rubric: Palmam qui meruit jerat. ("Let him bear the palm who has deserved...
...inimitable self. For this reviewer, who first saw Mr. Cohan in "Little Nelly Kelly" when he was still singing and dancing. Mr. Cohan remains one of the best actors in the country. There is a quiet finesse to his every action. He always has his audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe-at-home" motion and a raised forefinger...
...known sportsman. In 1906 he won the national amateur golf championship. For years he kept a box at Forbes (baseball) Field, Pittsburgh. In England and the U.S. he had racing stables. He won trophies at trap shooting. He maintained homes at Pittsburgh, Southampton, L.I., and Aiken, S.C., often visited Palm Beach...
Short, baldish, with a grizzly mustache and a fondness for bright neckties, Storekeeper Simon calls scores of his employes by their first names, likes to go to their parties. He spends much of his time in Palm Beach, where he has established a resort shop. When away from New York he leaves his business in the hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store...
Malcolm Shepard Knowles '34, of Kelsey City, Florida, has been made assistant chairman of the Foreign Student Committee at Phillips Brooks House, as a result of a competition that has been going on for the past four weeks. Knowles, who prepared for Harvard at palm Beach High School, will become full chairman of the Foreign Student Committee next year...