Word: stovers
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...paternal side, the first Eisenhowers (who spelled it "Eisenhauer") settled in Pennsylvania between 1730 and 1740; the general's grandfather, Jacob Eisenhower, a leader of the River Brethren sect of Mennonites, moved his family to Kansas in 1878. On the maternal side, the general's forebears (named Stover or Stoewer) were also German immigrants who prospered in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley until the Civil War brought hardship and destruction...
...explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...
Died. Owen McMahon Johnson, 73, Yale-educated novelist (class of '01) who spoofed his Alma Mater's social system with 1911's bestselling Stover at Yale; after long illness; in Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...member that somehow has managed to produce alumni of such varied types as Nathan Hale, William Howard Taft and Rudy Vallee. In the person of William Lyon Phelps, it has gushed through hundreds of women's clubs; and in Owen Johnson's fictional character of Dink Stover has fired the hearts of thousands of pre-Hopalong boys. It is the land of the Whiffenpoof, the Boola-Boola, the tables down at Mory's. Waggish non-Yalemen never seem to weary of calling "For God, for Country and for Yale" the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language...
...when undergraduates carried bangers (canes), hired sweeps (servants), and felt it bad form to "talk stand" (discuss marks). They were the days that soon inspired the fictional Frank Merriwell, who would give his all against Harvard ("Old Yale can't get along without him!"), and tight-lipped Dink Stover ("I'll play the game . . . We'll see who'll lead!"), who did the same...