Word: campion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly as Samuel Insull's power interests came into the investigation, they went out, when Charles O'Malley, Boston advertising agent referred to in Carberry's letter, testified he had not mentioned Insull to Carberry; had mentioned, instead, two Manhattan brokers, one Campion, one Colloran, who wanted to buy the Post for "other interests...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...literature, Anne Parrish's Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...
Maggie, the oldest, capable and devoted, got precious little help from moony-spoony May, the Campion beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed...