Word: troy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in Troy, N. Y., March 27, 1840, George F. Baker got a job at $2 as grocer's boy, participated in 1863 in the formation of the first New York Bank under the National Bank Act, "plunged" successfully in U. S. war bonds, made the First National Bank the bank of banks-that is about all that is known of Mr. Baker† in the last century. Friends say he has the hardest shell and softest heart in America...
...star (and especially the entrance of the debutante chorus) shall be greeted by whinnies from the house, every exchange of fun met with labored groans, and that thereafter the graduates who will mill out into the night shall wag their beards like the old man on the walls of Troy and say that this is the best show the Pudding ever gave, or not the best, depending on the individual sap-content...
...Haven, Conn., April 6.--The 1925 Board of the Yale Literary Magazine announced tonight the election of the following men: chairman, William Truesdale Bissell; managing editor, Richard Parker Crenshaw Jr.; book reviewer, John Rensselaer Chamberlain; associate editors, Frank Davis Ashburn and William Eugene Troy...
Paul R. Hickok, Troy...
Four young ladies from the cast of "Helen of Troy, New York", now playing at the Colonial Theatre, were present at the Pi Eta rehearsal yesterday afternoon and assisted in the coaching of the production, "Dr. Hyde and Mr. Seek". For their benefit the rehearsal was partly in costume. Miss Queenie Smith, the star of the popular musical comedy, gave several points on dancing to the pony ballet, while Miss Helen Ford super-intended the love scene between E. E. Sawin '25 and C. H. Morgan '24, assisted by Miss Carrington and Miss Hudson...