Word: unkindness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chains. Unjust are the sneers which currently link Louisiana's bankers with Louisiana's onetime lotteries. Unkind are pictures of bewhiskered, bejuleped col- onels. As every Louisianan knows, New Orleans can boast many an active, enterprising apostle of sound finance. One such journeyed to Philadelphia last week to address fellow-bankers on bedrock principles of their profession. No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. German-born Banker Hecht has become so substantial a support of Louisiana industry that the Times-Picayune gratefully hailed him as New Orleans...
...deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom. His name is Morton McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...
...field and the other on the further section of the grandstand and retain one's composure or peace of mind. But it is extremely difficult to retain the aforesaid state when the enemy is desecrating the final station with foreign spikes while the local representatives, by an unkind turn of fate, remain fastened to the various way-stations along the route...
...Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...
...seems an unkind fate which will leave his chair vacant at our approaching twenty-fifth anniversary. We shall miss him increasingly as years pass...