Word: tait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other calisthenics proponents were irritated, included Professor of Physical Education Robert Tait McKenzie at the University of Pennsylvania, who retorted that the average city dweller neglected his abdominal regions and hence needed organized exercise. And Dr. Eugene Lyman Fiske, medical director of Manhattan's Life Extension Institute, who scoffed: "Walking in the city is the greatest camouflage I know of. All you will get from it, with the possible benefits for the lower limbs in some cases, is flat feet...
...Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom he had been secretary...
...effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith, second daughter of the late Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882. For that sentimental reason he last week asked his King to accept his resignation. His resignation was without precedent. Heretofore archbishops of Canterbury, ever since Augustine first held that seat (597-605), have quit office only through orthodox murder or natural death...
...Gage, Chairman, and Marjorie Teague; G. N. Burns and Marie Cone; Bradford Cannon and Elsbeth Tait; L. E. Johnson, Jr., and Dorothy Ruth Johnson; W. W. McAdams and Marjorie Pitcher; S. P. Park and Suzanne Pollard...
That there should be "a regular Tait cheer" and that the cheer should be given with a will--and a resemblance--is in key with the whole...