Word: prom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages!" On the bier was laid a bunch of white roses from Thomas Bat'a's son with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince of shoedom that he is. He lives with his mother and drinks quantities of milk. Aged 19, he has escaped most formal schooling and examinations but passed the Czechoslovakian Government's test for the certificate of "master cobbler." After a trip...
...Manhattan monstrous, acromegalic Primo Camera appeared before a referee in bankruptcy, sequel to a breach of prom ise verdict for $14,380.25 obtained against him by one Emelia Tersini, London wait ress (TIME, March 24, 1930). Demanded the referee: "Have you any money at all?" Camera : "I dono. That don't intrust me." Referee: "Do you know what a petition in bankruptcy is?" Camera: "Sure. Broke." Referee: "Is that all you know . . .?" Camera: "Yeah...
...five Hearst sons (no daughters) of whom two -Twins William Elbert & Randolph Apperson-are too young to be studied as successors to their father's power & glory (but not too young to borrow one of his airplanes last week to fetch a Pittsburgh girl to the Lawrenceville Junior prom). One of the other three, fat George, 29, is senior-and least likely on his showing to date to handle the Hearst empire when the Chief passes. Nicknamed "Fanny." good-natured Son George has been tried out on the papers in New York and San Francisco, where he delighted...
...Prom should not be taken too lightly. It is by far the most important social event on the college calendar. It is a great occasion, wreathed in tradition and garlanded with significance. To realize its bigness, one needs only to think of the misfortune that would be its passing...
...adjusting itself to the latest conditions, the Prom has preserved itself, and will continue to preserve itself if it follows the same sane policy. The Prom is dead. Long live the Prom! --Yale News...