Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...
...Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 67, British complete letter writer, issued a statement last week. Said he to the London Daily Chronicle: "A horrible rumor has reached me that I have written my last letter to 'the newspapers. . . . This rumor is wholly false, as I am now determined to go on writing until I am dead...
...Algernon Ashton has written more than 2,000 printable letters to the newspapers, a world's record, even for England where writing to newspapers is a national pastime...
...Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows of abstinence. For three years he struggled heroically against the deadly fascination of the habit. The habit won. Then Algernon Ashton faced his weakness squarely. He accepted it, took pen in hand, wrote a letter to the Times. Old now, but proud, he perseveres...