Word: forsythe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senator Heflin tried to obtain the Forsyth County Court House at Winston-Salem, N. C., to hold an anti-Smith demonstration. But the County Commissioners refused to allow it. Senator Heflin, blatant bigot, would injure Winston-Salem's reputation and lower the prestige of North Carolina Democrats, they said...
British male fashions as distinguished from French feminine modes were subjected to ponderous analysis, last week, by Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress...
...Forsyth, Mo., a Shetland pony, panic-stricken, plunged into the flooding White River. His pasture-mate, a mule, turned back from high ground and safety; plunged after, dragged the pony ashore by the mane...
Married. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of famed Poet-Essayist Matthew Arnold; to Harry Forsyth, grandson of the late William Forsyth, M. P., Q. C., author; in Manhattan...
Engaged. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of Poet-Pundit Matthew Arnold and great granddaughter of Headmaster Thomas Arnold of Rugby; to Harry Forsyth. Her mother, Mrs. F. W. Whitridge, of Manhattan, is Matthew Arnold's daughter, Lucy, who was in part responsible for his visits to the U. S. (1883 and 1886). The fastidious Arnold, England's apostle of culture, was little pleased with the U. S., but felt much the same toward the England of his day. Upon his death in 1888, Oscar Wilde remarked: "Poor Arnold, he won't like...