Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A two-funneled Italian freighter steamed into Gravesend, England, last week and tied up safely at its pier. Flags on other craft dipped a salute, sirens screamed. In London a relieved Lady Chamberlain telegraphed to Premier Mussolini that his ship was safe.
He dignified his institution with the name Pomfret School in 1899. Ten years later his brother, Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted of Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as...
As Pomfret became more and more a "hard-collar" school, its worldly goods were added unto. From Banker Edward R. Stettinius, from the late Morton F. Plant of New London came schoolhouses and dormitories. Mrs. Frederic E. Lewis of Ridgefield gave a gymnasium. Mr. O saw to it that his...
Physical fitness was the insistent credo of great-bodied, florid, sandy-haired Mr. 0. He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out...
The same rigor was applied in scholarship and discipline. It was Mr. O's pride that Pomfret boys have more than held their own among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened...