Word: rollo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Mother Goose," as a parody of Harvard life, is a successor of "Rollo at Cambridge," published many years ago, and the remarkable "Alico in Cambridge", which was written...
...aristocracy in general rallied to plebeian tasks, as in Wartime. The Duchess of Westminster, onetime actress, drove a truck from which she sold newspapers. The Viscountess Massareene piloted a vegetable lorry. The Duchess of Sutherland, Baroness Rollo, et al, similarly busied themselves...
...board of awards observed this proviso, the Rollo Books might, be more eligible than anything produced by Mr. Lewis. There was at least a 50:50 chance, his defenders claimed, that he had been quite honest. He is a man without taste; that was clearly demonstrated when he recently invited God to strike him dead in Kansas City (TIME, May 3). But his books have shown just as clearly that he is neither a stupid man nor a poseur. Whether, this time, he were sincere or not, nobody could decide, but everyone said something or other...
...attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well in the face of its ancient and insurmountable difficulties...
Louis Wiley, shrewd business manager of the New York Times, told them that "cooperation is the important reason for modern progress." Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds of Columbia Teachers' College told them that "America is the first country in the world that has dared to educate all of her people. . . . When I went to school I was educated so that I could get a good job and make a lot of money. You young folks today are educated instead to make your contributions to the great experiment of democracy...