Word: bottomleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing room comedy. But the days of the green carnation have passed and the circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there are not ten lines which Mr. and Mrs. Playgoer can quote without being suspected of resurrecting Wilde...
Princeton--1, F. K. Bottomley '27; 2, W. L. Colket '26; 3, I. H. Clothier '26; back, H. R. Erdman...
...whose memoirs, "Myself Not Least", has just been published by Henry Holt and Company, has many interesting things to relate about his political affiliations with Horatio Bottomley. Among other things, he says of Mr. Bottomley...
...Horatio Bottomley, the wicked Munchausen of British journalism, is in Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. But money he continues to make...
...Bottomley formerly published John Bull, which is more anti-American than Mr. Hearst's newspapers are anti-British. He defrauded the public by huge lotteries. As he went to jail Justice Darling, the wit of criminal trials, is said to have remarked : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy...