Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Algernon Cecil-G. Bell & Sons, London...
Died. Henry Algernon du Pont, 88, onetime (1906-17) U. S. Senator from Delaware; cousin of present U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont (gunpowder, General Motors, mining, banking, street railways); in Winterthur, Del.; suddenly, of heart failure. He was great-grandson of French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), monarchist, who in 1799 emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became...
...usual rabble of fairy godmothers", armored knights, rubicund policemen, aunts, bears, sponge cake and "the biggest giant that ever gianted" infest this compendium. It is entirely concocted by British authors-Sir James M. Barrie, P. G. Wodehouse, A. P. ("Punch") Herbert, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, Algernon Blackwood, Cynthia Asquith (the editress) and many another...
...British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice but for the fact that it went on to say that the Parsons Turbine Co. would build the experimental machinery. When that name Parsons-Sir Charles Algernon Parsons-is mentioned, engineers pay attention...
...family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...