Word: albions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soap) family he married. Currently Bishop Matthews is engrossed with a slowly rising, million-dollar cathedral of his own, to which Trenton's bridge-building Roeblings have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan's Dr. Gardner, a stocky, affable bachelor of 52, announced his acceptance last Sunday...
...know his thoughts as the daily setting sun throws his rocking chair into shadows. When the Civil War came to an end, he was taking a degree at Luther College in Iowa. In 1866 he embarked on a teaching career as professor of Greek and modern languages at Albion Academy, his prep school in Wisconsin...
...help came from Mrs. Edouard Albion, wife of a baritone who periodically feels impelled to produce opera in Washington, had his last disastrous experience in 1930 when he ended a two-week festival owing stagehands and orchestramen some $7,000. The amount he had to meet last week was only $1,500. By union regulations musicians are entitled to be paid in cash before they go into the pit. Last week's performance seemed doomed when no one would vouch for the $1,500 check even though Mrs. Albion insisted "this is one of the loveliest performances ever given...
...nearly three hours, pausing only to adjust her glasses or steady her hat. Stagehands had left with the musicians so members of the cast were obliged to manipulate the curtains. Electricians went also, so there was no attempt at lighting. But hit-or-miss the performance, with Edouard Albion as Nilakantha. the fanatic Brahman priest, went on to the end which came...
With the Japanese Press shrieking "Perfidious Albion" last week, Lord Lee in London gave a lie direct to the memorandum of the late Adolph S. Ochs and it seemed unlikely that Charles Evans Hughes would unbend as Chief Justice of the U. S. to tell what cannot be told by such dead men as President Harding, Publisher Ochs and Lord Balfour, who led the British Delegation at Washington. Said Lord Lee: "Lord Balfour and I found that plan a complete and absolute surprise...