Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast is as follows: John Worthing, W. W. Birge '35; Algernon Moncrieff, E. A. Peterson '35; the Reverend Canon Chasuble, L. H. Eunis 4G: Merriman, the butler, L. vonB. Nichols '35; Lane, a manservant, D. V. McGranahan '35; Lady Brackmell, William Abbott 1L; Honorable Gwendolyn Fairfax, R. L. Cummings, Jr. '35; Cecily Cardew, T. M. Hastings '34; Miss Prism, F. F. Silver...
William Nelson Cromwell was born in New Jersey in 1854. Graduated by Columbia Law School, he became a clerk in the Manhattan law office of Algernon Sidney Sullivan. Ten years later he was a partner. Lawyer Cromwell's most spectacular case occurred in 1902, when, with the assistance of a French engineer named Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, he succeeded in selling to the U. S. for $40,000,000 the French franchise to the Panama Canal over the rival bid of a Nicaraguan route. The firm of Sullivan & Cromwell had its richest successes in the bold bad days...
...George, having no choice, nominated for re-election the previous Speaker (who is always renominated) aristocratic Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy. He, by another custom, sat in compulsory "modesty" on an obscure Government back bench last week. Next the Clerk, still silent, swung his extended arm from Government to Opposition, pointed to Laborite Will Thome who promptly seconded the stereotyped nomination. It then became the duty of Nominator Sir George and Seconder Mr. Thorne to advance upon the modest Speaker designate and "drag him to the Chair...
...Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, had sharp bumps built into the straightaways which no driver would be inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...
...date of Great Britain's General Election, but 65 candidates automatically became members of the House of Commons last week when no other candidate appeared in any of their constituencies to make them fight. Thus popped back into the House were slim, aristocratic Speaker of the House Edward Algernon Fitzroy (proud of his Royal bastard ancestry) and Stanley Baldwin, pudgy, bumbling Conservative leader. Other lucky candidates made up the following skeleton House...