Word: bosworth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bloody Richard III dies on Bosworth Field crying: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Henry Tudor, distant cousin of the last Lancastrian, King Henry VI, returns from exile, wins on Bosworth Field and marries Elizabeth, sister of the murdered York princes. Thus Henry Tudor merges the Houses of York and Lancaster, ends the Wars of the Roses, establishes his own House of Tudor. Many of his subjects believe that the York princes are still alive, that they somehow escaped from Richard Ill's confinement. But they do not reappear on the English scene. A century later...
...Paramount) was a vast success when acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap...
...Freshman lineup is as follows: England, g., Farmer, p., Howard, c.p., Lundach l.d., Leonard, 2d., Kimball, 3d., Lovy, c., Lansing, 3a., Forbush, 2a., Bosworth, la., Emory, o.h., Lardner...
Married. Trevor Charles Stamp. M.D., second son of Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; in Evanston...
Whether addisin is the same as the stomach extract which Dr. William Bosworth Castle of Boston has isolated and, with Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, successfully administered to Porto Ricans (TIME, Feb. 15), was not certain last week...