Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher'' (not Funnyman) Rogers, about all I know is what I read in TIME and the papers. A telephonic check-up this morning on Georgia Tech., Oglethorpe University and Agnes Scott College reveals that these "narrow-minded'' southern institutions of learning all have TIME on their library lists and have no idea of ''striking" it off at expiration of present subscription? They have the welfare of their students at heart. Proposition: If within 50 days...
...leave with regret but without personal malice toward anyone," declared Dr. Walter Scott Athearn after Butler University's trustees had ousted him from its presidency last autumn (TIME. Nov. 13). Last week in Indianapolis, charging the dismissal had injured his reputation, Dr. Athearn filed suit against Butler for $100,000 damages...
Judge Gary was 59 and had been chairman of U. S. Steel for four years when he married Emma Townsend Scott in a private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1905. His first wife, Julia Graves of Aurora, Ill. had died three years before. His bride was 28, California-born, the divorced wife of a picture dealer. They went to the Victorian house with the gingerbread façade shortly after the panic of 1907. There for nearly two decades while he ruled the destiny of Steel, she entertained the kings of industry, the royalty of Europe...
TENDER Is THE NIGHT- F. Scott Fitz-gerald-Scribner...
...many a U. S. reader a nine-year period of suspense ended last week when F. Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel...