Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holbrook, Frederick B. Tolles of Newtonville, Minot W. Tripp of Falmouth, Alexander A. Valois, Jr. of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Francis J. Walsh of Cambridge, Earle H. Webster of Bridgewater, Harold P. White of Winchendon, Hayward P. White of Egypt, LeMoyne White of Boston, Walter S. White of Cambridge, Francis J. Whitfield of Springfield...
...renounced all contests to make as many words as possible out of a given trade-name when a competitor topped by 300 words his list including every possible word in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and went blind. His granddaughter Doris Kelly, 15, has guessed right 29 times...
...Freshman summary: Score: New Hampshire 24; Harvard 32. Time: 18.51. Winner; R. S. Playfair '36, Webster (NH), MacLean (NH), Tinker (NH), J. R. O'Neill '36, Mathews (NH), L. H. Orr '36, D. Gratwick '36, Marlak (NH), Thompson (NH), L. C. Lean '36, T. L. Day '36, E. W. Dalton '36, Spear (NH), Greene (NH), McNally (NH), R. M. Peet '36, A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Chase...
Woman's World was founded in 1901, soon claimed the largest U. S. monthly distribution record (2,000,000) but never made money. It was finally taken over by the company which supplied its paper, sold in 1917 to the late Walter Webster Manning, who continued the policy of small-town appeal. Last year Publisher Manning died, leaving the magazine to his sons Conant and Gordon. Gordon Manning, who got his first publishing experience as business manager for the Princeton Tiger (1928-29), ran the advertising end in Manhattan. His brother directed the publication in Chicago...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...