Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suitable prologues or high class vaudeville may occasionally be added to a picture," said Mr. H. G. Sumner, representing the management, "but regular vaudeville will not be the policy of the company. The management intends to cooperate in every way possible with the wishes of the University office as well as of the students. Any of the University organizations wishing to make use of the auditorium for public performances will find us very willing to discuss the matter. As I understand it, this stage should fill a long-felt need in Cambridge...
According to Mr. Sumner, no expense will be spared in making every part of the theatre as up-to-date and as excellent as possible. A large lobby at the end of the foyer is planned, to serve as a smoking and rest room, and a theatre organ of the highest excellence is being sought...
...White Court came many New Englanders. Came Charles Sumner Bird, former Progressive leader, independent in Massachusetts politics, with his son-in-law one-time (1911-13) Governor Robert P. Bass of New Hampshire. Came U. S. Marshal W. J. Kevill. Came "four or five Massachusetts friends of the President." For luncheon came four members of the staff of the Boston Globe...
Born of terse North Englanders, serious as a youth, more so as a student, critical as a traveler, unabashed as a college reformer; a militant rector, fearless and hard-headed politician, prolific publicist, consistent evolutionary sociologist?William Graham Sumner comes vigorously to life in this friendly biography, the planning and writing of which deserve, quite as much as the subject, that old-fashioned adjective, "exemplary...
Glimpses of the man: Sumner sitting under a blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard...