Word: pickwick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Stephenson, 1826, prominent Boston merchant, by Vernon A. Field, of the Dickens Fellowship and Pickwick Club...
...author of the Pickwick Papers has been dead a good many years. So, too, have all the guests at the now famous "Boz" dinner given to Dickens in Boston on February 7, 1842. But for a single night on the anniversary of Dickens' birth and of the dinner given for him in Boston nearly a century ago, they will all live again in the persons of prominent Bostonians and members of the Harvard faculty who will impersonate the guests at the original dinner and reproduce the entire scene...
...rarest of the play advertisements that will be shown is a poster announcing the second performance of "The Pickwick Club" which was the second version of the dramatized "Pickwick Papers". This production took place at the City of London Theatre in London on March 28, 1837, the same year in which the book was published...
When the usually staid, not to say austere interior of the New Lecture Hall is transformed this evening by flags and banners into a miniature of Madison Square Garden a few weeks hence, the scene will bear a distinct resemblance to the town of Eatanswill, where Mr. Pickwick and his friends beheld a Parlimentary election...
...believe it does, said Mr. Pickwich." Here the analogy falls down; for although, contrary to Mr. Pickwick's belief, London was not concerned with Eatons will, the Demorcratic convention at the University will in all probability attract a great deal of attention in the world of national politics. The questions which have been tormenting party leaders for the last six months and graying the hair of managers of countless dark horses, favorite sons, and white hopes will be brought out into the open for a brief unofficial but illuminating airing...