Word: donaldsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson, of Tuckahoe, New York...
Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson, of Tuckahoe, New York...
...Green Hills Farms, a big, fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis...
...murderer-her brother. Then she changed her mind, visited Edward in jail, said: "I am here because I love my brother." To the police the elder Allen told of Mrs. Allen's deathbed request to break up her daughter's alliance, declared that pugnacious Francis Donaldson had previously knocked out two of his younger son William's teeth, had even punched his (Father Allen's) face in similar quarrels. He also said that the Donaldson family had refused to let their son make an honest woman of Rose...
With the essay of Mr. Alsop on Lawrence, Lewis, Eliot and Joyce, and the stories of Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Sulzberger, the Advocate plays admirably its part of affording the man interested in writing a chance to write, and the man interested in seeing what a Harvard undergraduate can write a chance to see. Mr. Alsop's critique bespeaks ability and care; it is readable and well-done. Whether one entirely agrees with his conclusions is in a sense unimportant. He has been, obviously, much influenced by the same forces which he believes led his subjects to their querulous, rebellious...