Word: avon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alfred Curtis Knox, 78, for 22 years Vice President of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, brother of onetime Senator Philander C. Knox; at Ben Avon, Pa., after a lingering illness...
...England itself the strike was not so serious as in the Dominions because of the large number of unemployed seeking work. But it was bad enough. The ports of London, Southampton, Hull, Avon-mouth and Swansea were wholly or partly tied up. The strike was spreading to Bristol and Liverpool. Even some of the Channel steamers were compelled to cancel sailings...
...Lawrence is at present in Stratford-on-Avon. He will give a middle group course next year, probably on the history of the Elizabethan stage...
...ability, and now proceeds to lay down the laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...
...spite of the rather lavish plan, tuition would be kept down to that of other preparatory schools. The whole would be a memorial to Mrs. Riddle's father-the late Alfred Atmore Pope of Farmington, Conn. Last week, it was announced that the buildings at Avon College were rising rapidly. It was announced also that Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, approved the whole idea as "a bold and far-looking experiment." The new school would "revive the colonial spirit...