Word: warner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other by George Joseph Warner, a gentleman of 63 who looks, in his bat tie and wing collar, precisely like a modest bank president seen through brown-smoked glasses. George Joseph Warner is the road's crack and senior porter. His section is always the "first...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
Many Alumni and men prominent in aeronautical circles have expressed interest in the club. The Hon. E. P. Warner '16, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, was a member of the Harvard Airplane Club in pre-war days and has been active in helping the present organization. Other graduates who have expressed interest are Godfrey L. Cabot, President of the National Aeronautical Association; and S. M. Fairchild '17, President of the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp., New York. Grover C. Loening, designer of the amphibian planes used by the Army in the South American flight, visited the airport...
...With prospects of more than $4,000 raised toward the Warner Hill Educational Foundation, recently organized by the Judge W. H. Hill Bible Class of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, preparations to aid students through Methodist schools by means of repayable loans are scheduled to be completed this fall, it was announced by George E. Knott, president of the class of more than 250 men. The educational fund was instituted at the inspirational meeting held at the church recently...
...things of the year. It is a happy fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life would be not only simpler but pleasanter on the sun drenched shores of Fanua...