Word: glyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
Died. Dorothy Maud, Countess Haig, 60, widow of the late plodding Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary P'orce during World War I; in Glyn Bangor, North Wales. In The Man I Knew, she warmly defended her much-criticized husband after his death...
...insurance companies, 27 finance companies, 16 banks. The Bank of England has only one M.P.-Sir Alan Anderson-among its directors, but Sir Alan is also a director of railroads and ship lines that have other M.P.s on their directorates. Typical of Parliamentary financiers is Lieut. Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, who is a director of the Midland Bank (biggest in England) and vice chairman of powerful Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. When family backgrounds are considered, the financial power of Tory M.P.s looks towering. Lord Wimborne, a director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself...
...MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD: THE LIFE OF SIR HENRI DETERDING-Glyn Roberts-Covici-Friede...
...steth-fod") causes more stir in Wales than a heavyweight championship fight in the U. S. Wales' great annual eisteddfod is held in August, attracts every Welshman's attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...