Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powers of an editor, had one common admiration-Croly. Through the New Republic's respectable but rundown portals passed some of the most incongruous people in the world: Greenwich Village poets, workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians from Wall Street, bearded atheists, Nicodemus-like lawyers, authors from Idaho, Junior Leaguers and Bryn Mawr graduates-all manner of odd types, irreconcilables, extravagants, visionaries and practical reformers who somehow were attracted by Founder Herbert Croly...
Dick Harlow has a few tricks up his sleeve for this Stadium tilt today. Harvard is literally with its back to the wall, but if the Sophomore-studded Crimson eleven can carry on from where it left off in Palmer Stadium last Saturday, chances of victory improve. The Harlowmen are prepared to take to the air themselves and toss the ball around if they are unable to crack the Cadet forward wall...
Dave Kemper at end and 130-pound Harry Blaine at guard were prominent in the Bunny line, while Murray Halpern, John Santosuosso, Ed Wall, and Arny Regal starred for the Commuters...
Right down the middle went the third, Hester. She married and divorced Ellery C. Huntington Jr., All-America (Colgate) football star and Wall Street lawyer, married and divorced Sculptor Oscar Fulton Davisson Jr. Among such liberal minds as inhabited conservative New Canaan, Conn., Hester was in the forefront. Still within the pale, still listed in the Social Register, Hester was not Red, but a delicate pinko...
...painfully interested observer of all this headline turmoil was Hester Huntington's ex-husband, father of her three handsome children. From his office at No. 49 Wall Street Ellery Huntington icily avowed: "My family has been here many generations and anything not absolutely 100% American is naturally distasteful...