Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yaleman. And, because the ceremony which takes place under Yale's elms on the third Thursday in every May is always fully reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale's four Senior Societies- Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club-were taken more seriously than now. In that day Yale would have shuddered if its dean had said, as Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell said three years...
...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...
...understand, two spry and clever Negro dancers named Carol Chilton and Maceo Thomas appear. First night spectators, seeing Mr. Jolson's pretty wife Ruby Keeler in their midst, wished that she too would get up on the stage and help out the show with some of the tap-dancing she used to do when she was one of the Little Girls at Texas Guinan...
Died. Edwin Haldeman Dennison, 58, U. S. Consul in Quebec since 1919; in Quebec. A partial paralytic, he slipped in his bathtub, struck the hot water tap, was scalded head-to-foot before he could be pulled out. He died two days later...
...Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...