Word: vaughn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muir, who with Frank Vaughn is giving the instruction, stated that probably the bad weather kept many candidates home, and that more would turn out for the next meeting...
Fifty-five Freshmen who have signed up for swimming are taking the Life Saving instruction under Muir and Vaughn. It is estimated that about two-thirds of those enrolled in the course will pass the tests...
...were schoolboys 25 years ago remember the name of William Vaughn Moody, but not as their elders do, and not as he would have liked to be remembered. With his colleague Robert Morss Lovett, Moody once ground out a textbook History of English Literature, and it is this repository of college entrance board wisdom that keeps his memory a dusty green. Few but his contemporaries now remember his Broadway success, now as dead as David Garrick, nor his poetry, once considered a minor glory of the western world. These letters of Moody's to Mrs. Harriet Converse Brainard...
...readers Letters to Harriet will bring many a whiff from the plushy past. Hoosier-born (1869), William Vaughn Moody worked his way through Harvard, went on into graduate pastures, then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were...
...friends of the Muse: her warm-hearted hospitality is still grate fully remembered by many a poet. And before she died (in 1932) she had written a first-rate book that may well outlast her husband's and her husband's memory. Its name: Mrs, William Vaughn Moody's Cook Book...