Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Webster Hawthorne was 27 years old, had put in a few years as an art teacher, when he settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted...
...Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...
Married. Rosemary Webster, 21, debutante daughter of Manhattan Surgeon David H. Webster; to Paul Gilson, 23, handsome but penniless Canton (N. Y.) poorhouse accountant; in Rochester, N. Y. Unable to stop the marriage. Father Webster proceeded to disinherit Daughter Rosemary "for the time being...
...Stephenson 1G, R. E. L. Strider, Jr. '39, P. S. Thompson '40, W. I. Tibbetts, Jr. '41, J. Tobin '39, G. S. Trickey, Jr. '39, L. S. Unger '39, J. B. Viets '38, P. Waring '39, J. R. Watkins, Jr. '39, R. C. Webster '40, G. Winter '38, J. J. Witherspoon 1L., C. B. Woodman '41, R. G. Worman...
Among the list of "prominent men and women who have set aside a definite time to meet you" we see all sorts of familiar names. Gregor Piatigorsky, John Barbirolli, Emily E. Connor and others prominent in social circles are listed. Write to secretary Ellen Webster, Wellesley '35, at the Hotel Biltmore for further particulars or call the CRIMSON any Sunday morning...