Word: rinehart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WALK AFTER JOHN KEATS-Nelson S. Bushnel-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Novel piece of literary sleuthing in which the author retraces every mile of the jointly-documented, 650-mile walking tour taken by John Keats and a friend in the summer of 1818. The path led Author Bushnel (who was weighed down with a load of maps, books and Keats's diary) over the hills of North England and Scotland and over trails overgrown with shipyards and factory districts that were not there when Keats made...
...Upton Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart...
...spring of 1900," Mr. Rinehart declared when asked about the origin of this old tradition, "examinations were just over and the students were sitting around on the steps of the Yard dormitories, when the cry first became a fever. The atmosphere was tense, as it usually is between examinations and Commencement...
...Well, as soon as this friend called out 'Rinehart' at the top of his lungs and it had echoed throughout the Yard, the rest of the students picked it up, and within a few minutes the place was a bedlam. Most of the students did not even know who I was, but it caught like a fever and they were hanging out of the windows yelling 'Rinehart' at the top of their lungs. It was good exercise, and I didn't care, but the cry has stuck...
...general theory heretofore concerning the origin of the yell--one which Mr. Rinehart said had no truth in it--was that a lonely youth had conceived the idea of calling his own name up to a vacant room so that the other students would think he was not without friends...