Word: haddon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Ongley Daryall, of the University of Reading, has been prominent in Rugby football, swimming, and hockey, as well as being the first president of the Students Representative Council, and dramatic critic for his university magazine. Andrew Haddon, of the University of Edinburgh, is a member of the University Boat Club, has served as President of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and takes an active interest in national as well as university politics. John Ramage, the third member of the triple-university team, has been influential in the undergraduate life of the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving...
...fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing...
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall...
...Mary and Douglas Pickford," as Fairbanks described himself and play- mate, are arranging for the showing of their new pictures, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Mary and The Thief of Bagdad by Doug. Soon they depart for England to add a little excitement to the life of Edward of Wales...
...proves her liberality; C. Haddon Chambers?"no matter what his income might be, he always lived beyond it;" Hall Caine?"he believes what he writes;" Marie Corelli?"per-ennially youthful in appearance, and caustic in conviction;" Sarah Bem-hardt, on losing her leg: "Patience, my dear Marbury, I will soon hop in to you;" Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her diminutive canine, Nanky-Poo; "inimitable George M. Cohan," who wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted...