Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STANFORD M. MIRKIN New York City...
...daily drawing, Seem Stars, appears daily in hundreds of newspapers. His Stars are all movieland heroes and heroines, but Feg could turn his spotlight on his own family for some stars. His father Dr. A. T. Murray, was head of the Greek department of Stanford University for 40 years. His brother, Robert Murray, was National Clay Courts Tennis Champion...
...himself, for Stanford, set the N.A.A. low hurdle record of 20 seconds. He ran the hurdles for the U.S. in the 1916 Norway Olympics, and in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. But Feg's business now is seeing Hollywood stars in the Ripley "Believe-It-Or-Not" manner. And in Hollywood he finds things even Ripley misses...
This year the polling Literary Digest announced that college drinking was in the course of a "great boom," although of 581 U. S. colleges, 436 forbid students to drink at all, 105 have restrictions, only 40 have no special rule. Stanford severely provides that "the possession, transportation or use of intoxicating liquors ... in the university shall be grounds for expulsion." Perhaps the most lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their...
Eccentric Harry Kendall Thaw, 67, who killed Stanford White for seducing his wife, turned up in Berlin after eye treatments in Paris, regretted that he could not enjoy "the best blondes and beer in the world." Said he: "I wish I could see them better. The blondes, I mean. Going to a nightclub when you can't see is like going for a ride on a scenic railway during an eclipse...