Word: crittenden
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Finally there are the Washington society-producers who stage the revue type of entertainment. Among these are: Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
...leather shoes and formal afternoon attire, others in humble headgear, stouter footwear and business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden Smith of Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Heinz, Pittsburgh; Conde Nast and Miss Natica Nast, New York; Miss Louise Berid and Colonel and Mrs. Robert Roos, San Francisco; Mrs. R. F. Tucker, a daughter of Colonel and Mrs. E. M. House; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Mrs. Capper...
Died. Rear Admiral John Crittenden Watson, U. S. N., 81, retired. He served under Admirals Farragut and Dewey, was representative of the Navy at the coronation of King Edward VII of England. He was often called "the man that lashed Farragut to the rigging," because, during the battle of Mobile Bay, he thus safeguarded his commander, who insisted upon remaining in the rigging for a view of the battle...
...great many college men feel that they want a "liberal education", but there are probably few of them who pause to think that they are indulging in an economic luxury which they may not always be able to afford. Mr. Gerald Crittenden, an able advocate of the worth of the liberal college, states this most emphatically in an article which he contributes to the November number of Scribner's. According to him the liberal college will speak to its prospective students in some such terms as this: "What we teach you here will not assure you of a job when...
...Crittenden perhaps overstates the inefficacy of a liberal education as an aid in the struggle for a livelihood. It is doubtless true that it will not, like the technical education, assure anyone of an immediate and fairly lucrative place in the production machine of the nation. Engineers, draughts men, and accountants and their ilk are in constant demand. But the very fact that they have been trained in one sole field usually keeps them engineers, drafts men and accountants. For the positions at the top, it is the knowledge of human nature and human relations and the hospitality...