Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halle Annex, opened last week, is also a pioneering building. It faces two streets other than Euclid Ave., and connects to the main store by tunnel. Huron Road and Prospect Ave. in Cleveland have been streets of warehouses, Greek restaurants, hardware stores, down-payment jewelry shops, raggle-taggle merchandisers, etc. Samuel H. Halle will bring shoppers to these streets, will perhaps cause Cleveland to take on a more metropolitan aspect...
...Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R.'s "Pioneer Limited" that left Chicago last week carried the first Pullman cars to travel over the company's rails in the 37 years since the founding of the road. President Edward F. Carry of the Pullman Co. and Receiver Harry E, Byram of the St. Paul had ended a long company estrangement inherited from the late President Roswell Miller of the St. Paul and the late founder George M. Pullman of the sleeping car company. The two men had quarreled; their followers had maintained hostilities...
...plan adopted yesterday by the student council at Amherst for the limitation of the activities which may be undertaken by, or thrust upon, any one student in the college, is one more step along the road that many American colleges seem to be travelling. It has been many years now since the constant; grinding strain of extra-curricular activities first began to be commented upon to the disparagement of the colleges which allowed them to rob their students of every moment of their academic leisure. It has been at least as many years since the whole round of these activities...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, with the current century, "Dick" Halliburton romped through Princeton University more bareheaded than most, running cross-country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...
...ROAD TO XANADU-John Livingston Lowes-Houghton Mifflin ($6). In this book Professor Lowes of Harvard aims "to tell the story, so far as I have charted its course, of two of the most remarkable poems in English, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia...