Word: derwent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...
...childish buffoonery as the admonition issued by a gatekeeper in this play that the invading army must not charge his gate, for it is only made of cloth. If one is appreciative of the super-subtlety of this sort of thing, he will probably enjoy the acting of Clarence Derwent and Constance Carpenter, which is in the same vein...
Announcement was made yesterday that John Henry Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, has been made an Associate of Adams House and that Derwent S. Whittlesey, Associate Professor of Geography, has been made an Associate of Eliot House...
...fellows are Jeromo D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation and director of the tercentenary celebration; Henry A. Murray, Jr. '15, assistant professor of Abnormal and Dynamic Psychology; Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the University and member of the Corporation; Walker R. Spalding '87, professor of Music, emeritus; Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography, and tutor; and Tyler Dennett, president of Williams College...
...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...