Word: winthrope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winthrop--Lyman Burbank '38; Jonathan G. Butler '39, William C. Flinn...
Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunste locates farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast of Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mt. Auburn Street, are found also the New Athletic Building, most of the clubs, and the offices of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Advocate...
...Rockefeller boys take life pretty seriously. Story is that once when playmates teased them about their dilapidated rowboat, suggesting that they get their father to buy them an outboard motor, Brothers Winthrop & David replied in unison: "Who do you think we are, Vanderbilts...
...Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis Adams, Banker Winthrop Aldrich...
Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...