Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance of these and the other nineteen pieces that the small book encloses are in some way explained by the quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact...
Last month a discontented Italian remained in Venice. His discontent arose from engine trouble which forced him out of the recent Schneider Cup races won by English Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster at 281 miles an hour. Discontented Major Mario di Bernardi tinkered with his engine. Last week he summoned a committee of the International Aeronautic Federation; flew. When he descended watches recorded he had traveled faster than man and his machines have ever traveled. Speed: 301.185 miles per hour...
...carboys, the touch football squad of the "The Dartmouth", generally and affectionately termed by those in the "know" as the "Short Green" for obvious reasons, rode into town last night for the first of their long series of annual games with the CRIMSON. The carboys, according to Mr. Webster, are vessels commonly used to contain corrosive liquids, usually sulfuric acid. Managers commonly contain almost anything...
...Brat," as a name for a child, is openly and admittedly insulting in the present day. Webster terms it "now usually contemptuous...
...Shannons of Broadway. Not so many seasons ago James Gleason and his wife, Lucille Webster, were unknown except to stock and vaudeville audiences. Then one night Mr. Gleason appeared in a piece of his own co-authorship called Is Zat So? From that day to this his name has been among the notables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gleason was swaggering, noisy and caustic, through Merton of the Movies and The Butter and Egg Man. Now the family (with the exception of a sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly...