Word: avon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...
...Born in Avon, Ohio, 55 years ago, and educated in the public schools, Harrison Williams has achieved, more thoroughly than 98% of his contemporaries, the titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...
...great poet visited the Harvard home in Southwark and dandled the infant university-provider on his knee? And so you have before you the probability that the founder of the first American university was the issue of a marriage brought about through the instrumentality of the Bard of Avon a combination of which we may well be proud...
...cent of the post-office appointments, I believe, are sold in my state." Said Georgia's George, "The sum of the exactions made would be fairly staggering." "Ridiculous," commented Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. Then two Florida postmasters-Alvin L. Durrance of Frostproof and Leslie D. Roberts of Avon Park-talked of paying "levy" for their posts. Postmaster General New discharged them forthwith...
...Rosenbach, who together make up the Rosenbach Co., have unlimited resources as well as an insatiable desire for more books; they were not surprised to learn last week that having purchased Alice, Dr. Rosenbach proceeded to pay ?10,500 for the diary kept by the Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon from 1629-81, and large prices for several other volumes. Whether he had an immediate purchaser in mind, or not, it was impossible to determine. A year ago people would have said that he was buying for Henry Edwards Huntington, rich California collector; last week Dr. Rosenbach was probably bidding...