Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
...cuteness of Actress Marion Davies. Part of the comedy depends upon the fact that no one dares utter such a rude phrase as ''have a baby," not even the iceman, who complains euphemistically of his fiancee's infidelity: "While I was trying desperately to keep the wolf from the door, the stork flies in the window." Actress Davies appears in the role of Joyce Stanton who, while trying to conceal the pregnancy of the iceman's fiancee, causes herself to be suspected of a similar predicament. She is engaged to an elderly banker but more interested...
Professor Carver has given Economics 8 since 1900 and the course has served as local color in two novels of college life; Robert Wolf's "Springboard" and Nathan's "Peter Kindred...
...always fully reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale's four Senior Societies- Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club-were taken more seriously than now. In that day Yale would have shuddered if its dean had said, as Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell said three years ago: "[The Senior Societies] must face the charge that the Senior Society men are no longer, through the Fraternities, establishing standards...
...reading period is to complete the study of that subject, finishing the text book which has been used in the first part of the course. There is no choice of assignment nor should there be any, since logic is such as science that the elementary knowledge given in Wolf is essential for itself, as well as for the final examination...