Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer blankets for Pullman cars, wash suits for city men in summer...
After graduation, this elder Lamont continued with journalism, at Albany, N. Y., at Seattle, Wash. There was an interim of teaching English at Harvard and Brown, and then he became, in 1900, an editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Six years later, upon the retirement of the late Wendell Phillips Garrison, Lamont took his original, ironic, extremely vigorous pen over to The Nation, editing that magazine with conspicuous ability until his death...
...sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...
Died. Edward P. Judd, son of Norman Judd who, in 1860, nominated Abraham Lincoln, at the National Republican Presidential Convention; in Seattle, Wash...
Ralph Sanger Scholarships--Walter Edwards Beach A.B., Stanford University, Cal., A.B. Stanford University 1922, Research Assistant, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Economics; Melvin Gardner De Shazo A.B., Seattle, Wash., A.B. University of Washington 1924, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Minnesota 1921, Philosophy; Elmer Joseph Working S.M., Washington, D. C., S.B. University of Arizona 1921, S.M. lowa State College 1922, Economics...