Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across in a me-to-you, or Boake Carter way, he remarked in his tryout broadcast: "I admit that I am a renegade, but I am still an Englishman, and I ask you to bear with me." That was the end of him. Now the job is handled by a German announcer whose mother was English...
...important music absorbed by San Francisco's 2,900,301 Fairgoers was played by Edwin Franko Goldman's band. After booping inconspicuously in odd spots about the Fair grounds, the band had finally landed in the Court of Honor. There, at $8,000 a week, they were still whiffling and booping to a handful of listeners...
Last week University of Chicago also received a big gift, from no unknown but an ardent alumnus who still lives in a fraternity house (Psi Upsilon) on Chicago's campus. The donor: broad-shouldered Daniel Hedges Brown, '16, onetime Hearst circulation manager, now president of Morris Mills, Inc., inventors and manufacturers of "Germ" flour (TIMEX Aug. 15). The gift: 20% of the annual royalties on Morris Mills' flour making process. If, as Mr. Brown is confident, all U. S. mills adopt his process, Chicago's income from it will be $1,-000,000 a year...
Caps and gowns (which became academic garb when they were prescribed for medieval scholars to cover their rags, are still worn daily at such places as Oxford and Fordham University) came into fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored...
...John, coupled in the betting with Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Gilded Knight,* was still an overwhelming favorite-despite the mud-when 30,000 horse-enthusiasts crammed the mid-Victorian stands at historic old Pimlico, on the outskirts of Baltimore, for the 49th running of the Preakness Stakes. Second choice was Challedon, who had finished second to Big John in the Derby and was reputed to like sloppy going...