Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday the Yale News gave fits approval in an editorial which we reprint in another column to Princeton's newly planned library declaring that Princeton is not just "hitching her wagon to a star...
...does not expect much from the Hearst press. Its self-appointment to the position of "official watchdog of America"; its alacrity in "climbing on the band-wagon" as soon as the trend of any public issue is divined and its strict attention to circulation together with an equal disregard for ethics or facts have all given the Hearst press a very definite place in the opinion of thinking Americans. That place is not very high...
Like many another boom project, Coral Gables was an almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed...
...intimate comedy, is a welcome relief from the colossal, and stupendously boring, dance spectacles. When Frod Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not delighting the eye by their dancing, Eric Blore and Everett Horton as butler and master tickle the risibilities with fast-paced dialogue. Helen Broderick, of "Band Wagon" fame, completes the triumvirate of finished comedians. The only bone the reviewer has to pick with the director concerning the whole production is that Helen Broderick was given such a relatively minor role...
...engraved commission, was Mr. Moffett's successor and good friend Stewart McDonald. A hale & hearty Scot with the shrewd ways and natty attire of Wall Street, Stewart McDonald has been FHA's acting chief in Mr. Moffett's summer-long absence. Marrying into the St. Louis wagon-making family of Moon, Stewart McDonald fathered one of St. Louis' most popular debutantes (Daughter Carol, now married to a son of Missouri's late Governor Gardner) and the Nation's first flashy cheap automobiles (Moon, Diana). After divorce and Depression, Mr. McDonald went to Manhattan with...