Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowing is now well under way at Newell Boathouse with a fair number of upperclass crew men and a large number of Freshmen reporting for daily instruction under the direction of E. J. Brown '96, coach of University crew, H. H. Haines, coach of Freshman rowing, and F. R. Sullivan...
INNOCENT BYSTANDING-Frank Sullivan -Liveright...
Like most innocent and hence significant humorists of the printed page, Frank Sullivan makes no blatant wisecracks in public places. He is an amazingly quiet Irishman, just short of plump. His occasional spoken words make sense and everybody likes...
Last spring, he wrote for the New York World an obituary for famed Nora Bayes, which ended: "I don't know where she is now, but I do know that whoever is with her is having a swell time." That applies well to Frank Sullivan, whether you are with him or reading his works...
Many of the pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...