Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That word "contempt" is one that gives a maximum of satisfaction when spat out by old British lips and it usually exaggerates the feeling of the speaker. But there was little exaggeration in this case for the speaker was old Sir Edmund Gosse, poet and critic, onetime (1904-14) Librarian to the House of Lords, who at 76 styles himself "the last of the Pre-Raphaelites...
...Edmund Wetmore...
...war?more than 30 years ago? when his father was no one in particular. He lived to see his father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future grim and desolate, and his face blanches...
...prospect for Edmund, son of Hugo, was not bright. First after his father's death he quarreled with his brother Hugo Hermann. As his share of his father's estate, he was given a controlling interest of the Nordstern Insurance Co. and of the Aga Automobile works. Recently he sold the former. Last week he got into serious difficulties with the latter. Short of cash, he could not pay his men's wages. He accused the banking interests of boycotting him. He offered $500,000 worth of stock to his employes, bargained with U.S. financiers for the sale...
College visiting, a favorite sport among the aged, was in full swing. From the "House" (Christ Church) to the "Skimmery" (St. Mary's Hall), not forgetting "Pemmy" (Pembroke), "Wuggins" (Worcester College), "Teddy" Hall (St. Edmund's Hall), "Jaggers" (Jesus College), "B. N. C." (Brasenose College), "Quaggers" (Queens College), hoary men, rejuvenated for the . time being, revisited the haunts of their college days...