Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Peter Christopher Arnold Daly, 51, famed actor; in Manhattan, by fire...
...Arnold Daly, actor, died last week in Manhattan. His life was brilliant and formless, his death terrible, grotesque and blurred. He began as an office boy for Charles Frohman. He became dresser for John Drew. Leaving Mr. Drew, he said that he would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson...
...sustained?the implications of biology in the future, the sanity of birth control, the purpose of evolution and kindred philosophical speculations upon the findings of science?speculations for which Professor Huxley appears to be strongly equipped, perhaps (laws of heredity notwithstanding) by one of his great-grandfathers, Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, father of Matthew ("Sweetness and Light") Arnold...
...Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor character...
...meeting of the Advocate Board last night, it was announced that Richard Thomas. Sherman '28 of Algona, Iowa, and Richard Arnold stout '29 of Louisville, Kentucky, had been elected to the Literary Board, and that Paul Thompson Sherman '28 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and James Campbell Weir '30 of Cleveland, Ohio, had been elected to the Business Board...