Word: goshen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published his first novel, a boldish tale for its day (1902), it was not adulation but inherent self-confidence that made him vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord...
Upon a trampled front-lawn heaped with furniture?a charred bureau, a mattress, some rugs, a torn pillow, the kitchen chairs? Harold Kronk and family of Goshen, N.Y., stood watching their house burn down. Almost everything had been saved; only one worry lingered in the minds of the Kronks. Where was the baby? "He's up there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen...
...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...
Amherst and Clark have no monopoly of the limelight. The little Mennonite College of Goshen (Ind.) has been closed for the year 1923-1924 because the Mennonite Board of Education, which favors restriction of dress and social privileges, can't agree on dress and social privileges with the entire student body, the entire faculty and the entire alumni association...