Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year was no exception by losing to Australia's Adrian Quist. After a long, see-saw match, long-legged Budge put the U. S. back in the running with a courageous victory over Australia's wily old Jack Crawford...
...turn of the Century Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave Dr. DeLee's pinched institution a big fillip by taking an interest that has never flagged. Dr. DeLee subsequently delivered four of Mr. Delano's grandchildren. Other high-born "DeLee babies": Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Paulina; Ruth Hanna McCormick's (Simms's) Katrina, Medill, Ruth. Such clientele helped Dr. DeLee prosper personally to such an extent that he could give Lying-in Hospital his check for $55,000 during a money-raising campaign. The Hospital is now affiliated with the University...
Alan S. Harrington, J. Spence Harvin, Stanley W. Herzfeld, James C. Hopkins, Jr., Henry P. Hoppin, William W. Hunt, Danforth Jackson, William S. Knowles, Charles W. Lawrence, Adrian F. Levy, Roger C. Lyndon, John D. Maloy, Lewis H. Mills, Robert H. Morse, Henry S. Mowbray, Robert D. Nuner, Schuyler Pardee, Constantine W. Patterson, S. Allen Pendleton, George W. Phillips, Benjamin Pitman, Jr., Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Edward H. Schoyer, Paul P. Selvin, Willard P. Sheppard, Jr., Edric B. Smith, Jr., Gray Taylor, Elkan Turk, Jr., George S. Viereck, Jr., Hugh G. Williams, David B. Wire, Richard Witkin...
...Nashville's ornate Cathedral of the Incarnation this week, Most Rev. William Lawrence Adrian, 53, lately an obscure Iowa priest, was to be installed as the seventh Bishop of Tennessee's 32,300 Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville...
...Bishop Adrian was undoubtedly chosen to build up Catholic schools and colleges in Tennessee, home of Protestant Vanderbilt and Sewanee (University of the South). Another North American College graduate, Dr. Adrian was long a faculty member and in 1932-35 vice president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport. A heavy-footed, horny-handed farmer's son, he coached football and baseball, taught Latin and manual training. Said he last fortnight: "I'm bringing two chairs I made to grace the Episcopal residence at Nashville...