Word: creamer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...
...most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...Metropolitan Museum. Matthew Clarkson came to New York as Secretary of the Province under William and Mary. He married Katherina van Schaick of Albany, and their children's children have ever since been prominent in Manhattan. The Clarkson family treasures- two-handled silver bowls, engraved patch boxes, a creamer by William Gilbert, chairs by Duncan Phyfe, a carved door from Turkestan, etc.-are now exhibited...