Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters perspiring in the Red Sea heat, St. Gandhi explained that only if the weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. ¶ On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones...
...Lunt & Fontanne. Full-lipped, slim, fiftyish, grey-haired since she was 18, Miss St. Denis has been dancing for 25 years - five years longer than her husband who is considerably her junior. Ambitious, intelligent, they are less academic than the late Anna Pavlova, less Dionysian than the late Isadora Duncan. Last week's audience, like many another, found them at their best in straight forward pictorial interpretations : Miss St. Denis in the Salome dance of Richard Strauss and an Oriental Dance Balinese by Wells Hively ; Mr. Shawn in dances to four oldtime U. S. songs and a fantastic Frohsinn...
...dances and hornpipes. They compete at putting the shot and tossing the caber (a heavy pole). To do all these things in Banff last week came, Scots from all over Canada. To see and hear came 10,000 guests, including Lieutenant Governors Dr. William Egbert of Alberta, Hon. James Duncan McGregor of Manitoba, Hon. H. W. Newlands of Saskatchewan, Premiers John E. Brownlee of Alberta and S. F. Tolmie of British Columbia, as well as the Siamese...
Shortly thereafter the new Canadian minister. Major William Duncan Herridge, arrived in Washington and the Press began to report resumption of diplomatic negotiations on the St. Lawrence project. This the State Department feebly denied. Later, however, the New York Power Authority chairman informed his Governor that he had heard from Canadian sources that Washington and Ottawa were secretly at work on a treaty...
Chairman of Commercial Credit is Alexander Edward Duncan, 53, canny Kentuckian of Scotch descent. With only a high-school education he started his first credit company in 1907, organized Commercial Credit in 1912 with $300,000 capital. He foresaw the motorcar as a great opportunity and his company now has 62% of its business in that field. Chief of his motor customers is Chrysler Corp. He likes fishing and horse-races, is more of a home man than a clubfellow. He lives in Baltimore where the company began, still maintains its home office although it is represented in 191 cities...