Saturday, February 3, 1934

I walked with Gweyn to the store. In the evening I went to a Pot Luck Supper at Mary Hampton's house.

Cover Artist: Georges Leonnec

Georges Léonnec (1881 – 1940), the brother of the novelist Felix Leonnec, began his career as a
cartoonist selling drawings to newspapers in 1899. After participating in World War I he worked
as an illustrator for the magazine La Vie Parisienne. He worked for several other publications
including Fantasio and Le Sourire. He was also well known for his advertising illustrations
for Byrrh apéritif wine, Dufayel department stores, and the Casino of Paris.

Friday, February 3, 1933

Ruth Ray came back to school today. Sure had a swell English assembly program.

*The first edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, was published this month. A scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary, its two volumes were "to present in miniature all the features of the (twenty-volume) principal work" and to be "a quintessence of those vast materials" in the complete OED.