Word: beverley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...
...above quotation was last week printed as coming word for word from the mouth of President Calvin Coolidge. Credit for this scoop goes to the London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American...
...filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised some of them, as he surprised many other Episcopalians, by announcing that in future he would receive into communicant membership, without the rite of confirmation, members of other Christian denominations...
Engaged. Anna Q. Nilsson, famed cinemactress, to one Ernest J. Krause, Beverley Hills investment broker...
Loew's State--"Beverley of Graustark" with Marion Davies...