Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Right Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, 69, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; of a heart and liver ailment; in Evanston...
...families are so steeped in tradition as the Barrymores, whose eighth theatrical generation consists of John, Lionel and Ethel (the onetime Mrs. Russell Griswold Colt). One part of the Barrymore code is that to any member appearing in a Manhattan premiere, another member sends not a basket of roses, but a big red apple. This autumn Ethel Barrymore has been gallantly struggling for big red apples-some for herself and some for her daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt, 19, who is making the ninth generation's debut with her mother in Scarlet Sister Mary...
...Protestant Episcopal Church League, unanimously through its executive committee and advisory council, ordered its Secretary Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins* of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to denounce: "... Amazing lack of scholarship. . . . The simple fact is, that in defiance of every scrap of historical evidence, about which, in reality, there is not the slightest ambiguity, he [Bishop Manning] faithfully follows a tradition which took its origin not from Jesus
...front of the reserved seats at the circus ground, Governor Balzar's elephant suddenly turned upon the camel. The camel balked. Lieut. Governor Griswold lost his grip, pitched head-over-heels to the ground. The crowd cheered wildly. Declared Lieut. Governor Griswold as he brushed himself off: "I knew I should never have anything to do with a camel." (Nevada...
...from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...