Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line from 4.30 to 5 o'clock will be Professor and Mrs. L. A. Craig and Commander and Mrs. R. M. Grady: from 5 till 5.30 o'clock. Professor J. L. Lowes 03 and Mrs. Lowes. Professor J. D. M. Ford '94 and Mrs. Ford, and Professor and Mrs. Taylor Starck; from 5.30 to 6 o'clock Professor and Mrs. B. E. Clifford, Professor and Mrs. F. A. Saunders, and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Plaskett. James De Normandie '29 and Winslow Carlton '29 will be the head ushers...
...Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary was first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds...
...Eugene Cornelius Sullivan, 56, invented Pyrex glassware for the Corning Glass Works. His aids were Dr. J. T. Littleton, his chief physicist and W. C. Taylor, his chief chemist...
Harden Franklin Taylor, 38, went from Government work (Bureau of Fisheries) to aid a sick industry (fisheries). Fish, even packed in ice, lost flavor, spoiled quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...
Show People,* famed ones, William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Aileen Pringle, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor were paid $7.50 (regular pay per day for extras) and given a good lunch by Marion Davies for showing their faces on her location. Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy...