Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brokers at Lloyd's propose to ask the British admiralty for naval convoys for merchant ships. Sure that this plan, which requires weakening Nelson's fighting fleet, means ultimate defeat for England, Blake holds out against it. When a letter from the admiral reminds him of their boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar. Wounded by jealous Lord Stacy...
...Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties celebrates the glories of this vanished life with 30 water color paintings by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a 52-page discussion of the Rice Coast by Dr. Herbert Ravenel Sass, a 38-page memoir of boyhood on a rice plantation by the late Daniel Elliott Huger Smith. The result is a handsome gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice...
...talent stretched over 100 years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson drove into Hillsboro, Ill. in a 1933 automobile for his first visit to his boyhood home in ten years. Announcing he might soon make a motion picture in Hollywood ("I know everyone there"), he chatted with old friends, bestowed his autograph, took to bed "to catch up on his sleep." Said a Hillsboro hotelman: "We have no criticism of Harry. In fact we glory in his spunk...