Word: thomaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicanor" is 67 feet long overall, and is from designs by Alden similar to his famous "Malabars", which have made such excellent showings in ocean races of the past few seasons. The craft was built in the yards of Charles Morse in Thomaston, Maine...
...Keefe '28 of 59 Waverly St., Boston, has been elected Captain of the Freshman Rifle Team and N. D. Holbrook '28 of Thomaston, Conn, has been appointed manager, subject to the approval of the Minor Sports Council...
Charles Ranlett Flint was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed...
...Birdsall '21, H. D. Costigan '20, and R. Gerould '20 as Asmah, Hay Feevah and She'dbetterhad, respectively, make a stunning trio of "vamps," with the Cleo Mayfield inflection. P. F. Nash '21 as Rev. Thomas Thomas of Thomaston, Ohio, a meticulous minister, and Ford Hibbard '20 as the merry scamp. Tom Tom, Jr., provide some of the best laughs in the show. C. C. Ryan '20 was picked for the role of Keeptotherite, an Arab traffic-cop, principally on account of his name...