Word: scott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invented by a group of the Class of 1905 whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors of the existence of an A-rating student named Cuthbert Gleep...
...Informers may still collect in intestate cases. Pending is the possible 25% which shrewd John R. K. Scott of Philadelphia hopes to collect from the $20,000,000 estate of the late snuff Heiress Mrs. Henrietta Garrett. Some 2,000 persons are currently claiming heirship, must be eliminated, however, before the estate escheats...
Playing onetime Champion Cyril Tolley in the second round, 59-year-old Michael Scott, who won the tournament in 1933, came to the 17th green thinking he was 2 down, picked up his ball instead of putting for a half, and said, "thanks, pleasant match." Officials pointed out that he had been only i down, ruled that he had lost by picking...
...judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected with a Mellon enterprise and who, though no creature of the Mellons, does not think much as the Mellons...
Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...