Word: elliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests to "set." Big Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type of character that Cartoonist W. E. Hill draws in Among Us Mortals. Actor Nugent gets the best laugh in the play by the simple device of holding his breath. This causes him to grow red with apoplectic indignation...
...Elliot C. Cutler '09, of Boston, has been elected Chief Marshal to lead the Alumni at the Commencement Exercises next June, it was announced after the meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association on Monday evening at the Harvard Club...
Seven league steps in this direction appear to be in the offing. To understand what the Conservatives might do it is necessary to look back a little. For some years past there has been within the Conservative Party a loyal opposition headed by Major Walter Elliot, who favors a positive, aggressive, policy in contrast to Stanley Baldwin's sit-tight-and-all-will-be-well program. This minorlty is now beginning to get the ear of the rank and file of the party because of a widespread public reaction against the present National Government's do-nothing policy...
...loyal opposition force upon the Cabinet a change in policy if it is not idly to await its early death. That this policy may well take the form of cartellization of British industry on the grand scale is indicated by the remark made in the Commons by Major Elliot, Minister of Agriculture: "We (the National Government) shall be forced to come to the House of Commons to ask for sanction for wide-sweeping changes in the economic structure of this country." This was followed by similar remarks by other ministers, and it is held generally that these are intended...
...leading article is an essay by T. S. Elliot '10,; and was used as his second lecture under the Charles Eliot Norton chair of Poetry at Harvard. It is entitled "Apology for the Countess of Pembroke...