Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Ottawa Evening Citizen, Reader David Forbes told of a chance meeting in a cafe with a Royal Canadian Air Force flyer:
Too much of a highflier on earth to have got his wings in Heaven, Charlie MacKenzie (Ralph Forbes) has spectrally hugged his old haunts for 150 years. At the moment he is pleasantly taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate...
By answering a newspaper advertisement, he got a position with a firm doing business in Russia and the Middle East. At 29 he became vice president of a large trading company, MacAndrew and Forbes, and managed their business in America for eleven years.
The new Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told...
The idea was not so dizzy as it seemed. The Scot was William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 50, Colonel the Baron Sempill, and also possessor of a title many Nova Scotians had not known existed: Baronet of Nova Scotia. An ancestor, one Sir William Forbes, served King James I in England...