Search Details

Word: boulton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Summoned from her villa in Switzerland by a phone call from the Point Pleasant, N.J., chief of police, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 42, returned to the U.S. to the bedside of her mother, Agnes Boulton O'Neill Kaufman, 76, who had been admitted to a hospital suffering from malnutrition. It was Oona's first trip home since she renounced her citizenship 15 years ago, after Charlie ran into visa trouble with the Attorney General on "moral" grounds. Denounced and disinherited by her late father, Playwright Eugene O'Neill, for marrying the 54-year-old Chaplin when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 27, 1967 | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceramics: Britain's Royal Potter | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Dividend will have its own president, executives and trademark (a D crossed by an arrow); it already has a board of directors second to none in Venezuela, from Mendoza and Gustavo Vollmer (sugar mills) to Henry Lord Boulton (shipping, Avensa Airlines, wholesale food), and Jesus Calvo Lairet, president of the Banco de Comercio. Initial capital, based on projected earnings of members for 1964, is $7,000,000. More funds will be raised from UNESCO, the Alianza and other national and international loan agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: A Private Peace Corps | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

PART OF A LONG STORY, by Agnes Boulton. Eugene O'Neill's second wife describes just a year and a half of her life with genius, but she makes it memorable. Great drunken sprees were wedged between great plays, and melodrama was always just around the living-room door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Author Agnes Boulton begins her story in 1917, five years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tale of Two Masks | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next