Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...
Professor Robert Seymour Conway of Victoria University, Manchester, England, will lecture this evening on "Vergil's Creative Art", this year being the two thousandth anniversary of Vergil's birth. Professor Conway will speak in the large lecture hall of the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock. He will also lecture, as Charles Eliot Norton lecturer to the Archeological Institute of America, on "The Origin of Christmas", this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock at 28 Newbury Street, Boston...
...next Friday Professor Robert Seymour Conway, of Victoria University, Manchester, England, and Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer to the Archaeological Institute of America will deliver a lecture entitled "Virgil's Creative Art" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum of Art at 8 o'clock...
Last week the War and Navy Departments promoted all retired World War officers to the ranks they held in Wartime, as authorized by Congress last June. Accordingly Maj. Generals Tasker Howard Bliss, 76 (Chief of Staff, Sept. 22-Dec. 31. 1917), and Peyton Conway March, 65 (who succeeded Bliss), are entitled to wear the four silver stars of a full general whenever (rarely) they have occasion to appear in uniform. Notable among those permitted by the new law to wear the one broad and three narrow sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander...
...Most Brilliant man in his Yale class ('15). He was both football player and chairman of the Literary Magazine, class poet and captain of water polo. He rose in the Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy, disciplined, he does not fit the expatriate scene. Other books: The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Streets...