Word: garth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD M.I.T. White, r.f. l.f., Garth Lavietes, l.f. r.f., O'Brien Gray, c. c., Smith Fletcher, r.g. l.g., Demo Tittman...
...author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost...
...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...
Because soot-black young Chief Tshekedi of the Bamangwato tribe ordered a white man flogged, he was banished from his country by Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans. Acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland (TIME, Sept...
...ranking senior of the two British officers on the folding chairs was a mighty chieftain indeed. Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans is one of the most distinguished officers in the British Navy. Born 52 years ago, he is the Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since...