Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refund, had been advised that if he parted from his stock he would be sorry all his life. He then offered, he declared, to sell his holding for $150, was told, this time more brusquely, that he had bought the stock would have to keep it. An individual named Elliott was president of the sales corporation. Would the Herald-Tribune care to investigate...
...indeed. To the reporter the city editor confided certain instructions. This James W. ("Jimmy") Elliott was a business man whose hard luck had made him famed. Already the public had invested over $7,000,000 in schemes of his, all of which had turned out to be rather less sound than Mr. Elliott had so confidently declared...
...Poor Nut. If you are opposed on principle to plays in which the actors parade as undergraduates with huge capital letters on their chests, you may dislike this one, by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. It has a track meet on the stage and a love scene at a fraternity dance. Under such severe handicaps, it manages to be a genial and, at times, an uncommonly amusing comedy...
Some of the proceedings are written as penetrating satire; most of them are slapstick comedy. The former gives the latter just salt enough to make the whole a popular dish. The whole cast plays with the enthusiasm of a negro chorus breaking into a Charleston and their leader, Elliott Nugent, gives a brilliant performance as the Poor Nut who fooled the squirrels...
...Dudley Clarke '03 of Boston was elected president and Deverous Milburn L. '06 of Westbury. I. I. honorary president. A committee to handle the immediate affairs of the Harvard Polo Association was appointed consisting of G. M. Carnochan '14. John Elliott '12 and R. E. Strawbridge...