Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...
Clad in white-collared grey uniform, Kathleen Knox, 21, socialite grand daughter of the late Philander Chase Knox. onetime Senator from Pennsylvania, Attorney-General in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Secretary of State under Taft, was found running errands as a page girl in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., controlled by Andrew William Mellon. Canny Miss Knox refused to discuss her job, remarked: "I'm interested in learning banking or I wouldn't be here...
...individual scoring record, compiled from the home games only, shows Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, the Gold-Coasters' fullback, far in the lead, with a grand total of 24 points. His closest competitor, Gardner Taft '35, of Winthrop House, and also a fullback, has scored only seven points...
Winthrop: Morris, r.e.; Cannan, r.t.; Schwyzer, r.g.; Emerson, Johnson, c.; Sise, l.g.; Dunton, l.t.; Babbitt, l.e.; Cranston, q.b.; Haring, Hindle, l.h.b.; Bottomley, r.h.b.; Taft...
Winthrop: Morse, Haring, l.e.; Dunton, l.t.; Sise, l.g.; Johnson, c.; Emerson, l.g.; Carman, Hindel, r.t.; Babbitt, r.e.; Cranston, Sise, q.b.; Counihan, Downs, h.b.; Taft...