Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodore Metz, 86, who wrote "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight''; thin, bald Harry Von Tilzer who wrote "Down Where the Wuertzburger Flows'' and "The Old Fall River Line''; pink, froggy Harry Armstrong who wrote "Sweet Adeline...
Sugar Uses. Financed by the Sugar Institute, Gerald Judy Cox and Maryl L. Dodds of the Mellon Institute found new uses for cane sugar. With sugar, hydrochloric acid and a variety of alcohols they have produced sweet-smelling liquids which might be used in perfumes and which can dissolve materials used in lacquers...
Replied Convert Mann: "May God bless your profound graciousness and sweet soul...
...ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some resembling pansies or dogwood blossoms, some like sweet peas, like pistachio candy. Most of John Lager's finest plants were at home last week. Too valuable to be entered in shows are the really rare orchids which orchid men guard like crown jewels...
...immemorial prerogatives of the collegiate journalist. To damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were asked to unite against "bearing arms except...