Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Cup is one of the strangest sporting trophies in the world. It was originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room...
This business was founded in 1900 on Palmer Street. After two years there it moved to its present location in Quincy Square, opposite the Union, where the concrete garage was built in 1906. In these pioneer days Ramblers and Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either...
Prospects for a successful season in Varsity lacrosse are fairly bright this year, although only four of last year's regulars are returning. Those who performed regularly on the 1933 outfit and who are returning are, Stanley X. Housen '34, William R. Lessig, Jr. '34, Irving W. Rabinowitz--'34, and Eddy Rogers '34. Beside these men there are several from last year's second string and from the 1936 Freshman team who are counted on to strengthen the outfit materially...
...best dressed woman in Europe from the blows of a stick in the hands of his irate mother, who objected to her new daughter-in-law's notoriety. At 15 Jean Donaldson, daughter of an Erie Railroad vice president, ran away from a Manhattan school to marry John Stanley Kirwan. son of a real estate operator. The marriage was annulled before the birth of Andrew. Mrs. Kirwan next married and divorced Captain Winneld Sifton, son of a Canadian Cabinet official. Mrs. Sifton's third hus band was Captain John Victor Nash of the British Army. Before her divorce...
...Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...