Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...
Married. Miss Emma Charlotte Moody, of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of the late Dwight L. Moody; to Dr. Frank Raymond Smith, of Stratford, Conn.; in East Northfield, Mass...
Engaged. Miss Mary Morris Hincks, direct descendant of John Hart, first graduate of Yale, of Bridgeport, Conn.; to Florimond Joseph Dusossoit, onetime (1917) captain of the Dartmouth football eleven, Southern Advertising Manager of TIME, the newsmagazine...
Married. Edward Coleman Delafield, 50, president of the Bank of America, director of many corporations; to Miss Clelia C. Benjamin, amateur actress, of Manhattan; in Greenwich, Conn...
...inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think. Soon he wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique...