Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheaton girls taking parts are Elizabeth Magill as Cecily, Mary Hill as Gwendolyn, Lady Blacknell, and Dorothy Mountain as Miss Prism. Mrs. H.C. Ballon, formerly connected with the Wellesley "Barnswallows," will direct the production...
This rite, begun by Edward III in 1363 in commemoration of Jesus' washing his disciples' feet, at first required the King to wash poor men's feet, as well as make them gifts. Queen Elizabeth added the precaution of having the paupers' feet first bathed and scented in the laundry. William III delegated the washing chore to his Almoner. In 1754 stingy, stupid, lecherous George II stopped the feet-washing entirely, refused even to watch the almsgiving. British repugnance for the "awful Georges" was notably obliterated by the late George V, who four years ago revived...
...confused with Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris), Marjorie Bowen is a versatile English historian, novelist and playwright, whose best-selling novel, General Crack, was written under the name of "George Preedy...
...Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce Pinchot and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, by suggesting they be tied together over a clothesline, like cats...
John Crempa grinned with enormous pride last week while employes of a Public Service Corp. of New Jersey subsidiary testified in court at Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness...