Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Garrod at present is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and also is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1917 he visited the United States as a member of the Special Labour Mission, and in the following year held the portfolio of the Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Reconstruction in England...
...Otto Peltzer, German sprinter, en route to Tokyo with 14 fellow athletes, went for a walk in Warsaw during the train's stopover. Seeing a train start chuffing from the station, he sprinted, caught the last car. swung aboard. It was the wrong train. He missed...
This greatly annoyed Radio-Announcer Walter Brokenchild (Walter N. Greaza), a likeable, unctuous-voiced fellow, supposed to be a satire on real Radio-Announcer Norman Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...
When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became...
...Colvin & Co. last week surprised fellow brokers by offering to the public stock of Ford companies in Germany, Denmark, France. These foreign Ford shares had been considered almost unobtainable over here. Especially surprising were the German and Danish offerings, since 60% of German Ford is held by Ford Motors Co., Ltd., of England, and nearly all the remainder by I. G. Farbenindustrie. Less than 7% of Danish Ford shares were offered to the public in Denmark and Holland...