Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transcribed by Francis Scott Key from notes on the back of an envelope immediately after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, on the night of Sept. 13-14, 1814, it was given by the author to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, who had a number of broadside copies printed at his own expense. The manuscript remained in the Nicholson family until the Judge's granddaughter Rebecca Post Shippen sold it in 1927 to Henry Walters, Baltimore railroad tycoon (Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville). The price was said to be around...
Except for the 50-yard freestyle, where George C. Scott, Jr. '34 equaled the Harvard record, and the backstroke where Captain Edward E. Stowell '34 although pressed for three laps by Kyle of the Boys' Club, was one-fifth of a second slower than his record, the times turned in were unimpressive...
Over the furlong George C. Scott, Jr. '34 will be pushed hard by O'Brien, the Boys' Club entry, as will be the Crimson starters in the 100-yard freestyle. The visitors' time for the fifty is just one-fifth of a second slower than Scott's record time of 24 2-5 seconds...
Featured in the January Scribners is the first of four installments of "Tender is the Night," a Riviera romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of the many young men who were, in his time, driven to self expression as an alternative to going abroad in a tramp steamer; he is one of the few of them who has learned the mechanics of writing. Everything that comes from his pen has the same brittle competence. One sees the commas, the exclamations, the paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them...
...once more came under critical discussion. First speaker was Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. No. i Inflationist of Congress. Next House Speaker Rainey flayed Hard Moneyman Sprague for flouncing out of Washington as a presidential ad- viser. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, ex-banker and onetime enthusiast for Technocrat Howard Scott, burbled his delight at the President's monetary experiment. To answer them up rose the fourth and last speaker, James Paul Warburg. 37-year-old vice chairman of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., himself no monetary conservative, who from March 4 to midsummer stood closest to one of President...