Word: chapman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Chanler Armstrong Chapman went to St. Paul's School in 1915, he had a family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than...
Fortnight ago, after brooding over St.Paul's for 21 years, Mr. Chapman, now a dairy farmer in Barrytown, N.Y., told his story and the low-down on his famous old school in a book: The Wrong Attitude: A Bad Boy at a Good School (Putnam...
...Chapman named no names, identified St. Paul's: "It was a great big scnool named after a great big powerful Saint, whom some of us boys thought a little narrow-minded. The place was full of tradition. It was one of the oldest boarding schools in New England. The hockey was good and the scholarship did the best it could...
Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...
Completing the exhibit from Harvard's own collection are the original drafts of E. A. Robinson's "Merlin," of "The Hamlet of Archibald MacLeish," by MacLeish, and of "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," by Keats...