Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Westminster coroner's jury decided that Philip P. Samuel of Winchester Street, Pimlico had died an accidental death when his bicycle ran over a pedestrian's toe and he was tossed under a motorcoach...
...Andrew J. May of the White House Photographers Association graded his frequent subject, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall, gave her 97% From a perfect score Photographer May deducted three points: one because he "suspects" the President's daughter uses a bit of rouge; one because she does not always toe straight; one because, at 134 lb., she seems slightly underweight. For the new president and football coach of Notre Dame, the South Bend, Ind. Chamber of Commerce held a testimonial dinner, invited Editor Merle Thorpe of The Nation's Business and President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue. As Editor...
...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
...reluctant ears, and are thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...
...Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised as to read it, it may annoy them, but only temporarily...