Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Belasco's It's a Wise Child, by virtue of its title and the presence of Harlan Briggs, spry farceur, should be racy, garrulous. A comedy, Dinner Is Served, by one Alan Mowbray, will include the author in its cast...
...having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...
...highest award for study in residence abroad was awarded to Alan Richardson Sweezy of Englewood, New Jersey. This prize, known as the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, England, is awarded on the basis of all around ability to some Senior who will represent the University at Cambridge...
...Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election, had once been jailed in Boston for ballyhooing the Sinn Fein movement...
...Kenwyns had three children, two "normal" pleasant members of society, Alan and Joan; one ethereal sprite, Lynneth, lover of winds, rains, fierce lightning, awful thunder. Alan despised her for the hysteria she indulged whenever her family kept her indoors from a thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from jealousy, partly from nerves. But Claire, the girl Alan loved, adored Lynneth, credited her with an "elemental tenderness." And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form...