Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viscount Sankey, who in 1929-35 was the Lord Chancellor, intimated that he saw no judicial or constitutional obstacle to King Edward's marrying Mrs. Simpson if His Majesty is so inclined. Intimated the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy: "You can take it from me that the King is determined to and will marry Mrs. Simpson...
...issue was still undecided. After the delegates had slept on it, they were no nearer agreement. Someone struck up the Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists were not standing. A howl of rage broke from the convention. Amid the general yammering few heard Louis Waldman's answer: "I will not rise to sing a song of solidarity with a group that has just expelled...
Stanley A. Miller '38 will play the part of Jack; Michael Linenthal '37 will appear as Algernon; R. Thomas Fels '39 as Dr. Chasuble; Irving H. Chase '39 as Lane; and James P. Osbourn '38 as Merriman...
...wrongs of the Social System in a crushing valedictory address, which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...FRUIT SIGNERS-Algernon Blackwood-Button ($2.50). Fantasy of a little girl who lives with her father and her black cat, peoples her house with pleasant imaginary companions...