Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs of Mr. Good's assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary of War and in June got mentioned for the Vice Presidency. Another (Oh. shrewd Mr. Good) is Farmer Lowden's good friend, James G. Oglesby...
Night Hostess. It was said of Philip Dunning, playsmith of Night Hostess, that he was a losing principal in one of the numerous fistal engagements which took place last winter during the speakeasy season. Whether or not that is true, Play-smith Dunning knows rackets, racketeers; specifically, he knows Broadway and Broadwayfarers, most of whom are in one racket or another. Not one of their characters has he gone wide of in portrayal...
...Edwards resigned his headmastership last winter. His action surprised and bewildered many younger alumni. Abundant, thereafter, were false rumors. Facts known were that there had been several excited meetings of the trustees, that Dr Edwards had offered his resignation voluntarily more than once, that finally the debates ended in amity. To the younger alumni it was enough to know that Dr. Edwards was now headmaster of Mercersburg, and to remember that The Hill School is also The Hill School Corporation, that financial reasons are often inscrutable and equally often sound...
...well-equipped barber shop, log fires throughout the winter and pleasant surroundings, in the rooms go far toward making the Union useful as a club. But most outstanding is the Union Dining Hall...
...whom the Union plans to invite to speak this year is Don Marquis of New York. Last fall Christopher Morley delivered a very amusing address to a full house and he suggested Mr. Marquis for this fall. A. A. Milne may come to this country sometime during the winter. Actors, playwrights and dramatic critics have spoken at luncheons heretofore although last year none appeared on the Union rostrum. This year St. John Ervine, the distinguished English critic who is gracing the pages of the New York World for a few months, may be present. An invitation will be extended...