Word: eleanors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike the Oxford book, however, Mr. Gay has not restricted himself to the poets of England alone. One finds Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Wylie, Vachel Lindsay, and others, listed with an admirable breadth of taste. On the other hand, the old favorites do not suffer from this inclusive grouping. In some six hundred pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from...
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...
...Margaret. Two are married-Eleanor McAdoo and Jessie Sayre. Mr. Sayre is a Professor at Harvard Law School...
...Earl of Birkenhead (onetime F. E. Smith), Secretary of State for India: "Last week, in London, the Weekly Dispatch announced that my daughter, Lady Eleanor, 'beautiful, sophisticated,' had become its society editor...
...Drinkwater-Doran ($5). Mr. Drinkwater, entirely suave in pen and person, has chosen very happily to write about Charles II. Posterity, with invincible gaucherie, remembers Charles as "The Merry Monarch," as the popularizer of a certain breed of spaniel, and as the only man or monarch to whom Miss Eleanor Gwyn* was ever faithful. Mr. Drinkwater does not forget the spaniels nor Nell Gwyn, but he remembers Mr. Charles...