Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise funds for a new trial, Rev, Harold Davidson, the white-haired, ill-famed Rector of Stiffkey, England, who was deposed for improper conduct with girls he was "rescuing" (TIME, July 18), last week put himself on display in a barrel on the seaside promenade of Blackpool, next to a girl fasting in a barrel. Crowds flocked to see. Explained he: "I am not going to fast. But I shall be here from 10 a. m. to midnight. While I am in the barrel, I shall be occupied with preparing my case. I want 200 pounds sterling for a special...
Last week three Yale investigators- Drs. Harold Edwin Himwich & Louis Herman Nahum, assisted by N. Rakieten -reported to the International Congress of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology at Rome, that alcohol loads the body with lactic acid. If drinking women bear daughters and abstainers bear sons, thence arises a problem in progeny for eugenists and sociologists to resolve...
Beside her in the last two weeks, during which her indomitable rallies amazed every one, were her onetime husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, their three living children, and her brother John. They had all come to her after years of an estrangement that was more of her making than theirs. A chief cause of the estrangement was also in devoted attendance?the plump little Swiss named Edwin D. Krenn with whom she had shared her last eleven years. Her brother John did not wait for the end. Itching painfully with an attack of shingles, he rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller...
...near to royalty as it is possible to come in the U. S. was Edith Rockefeller when, in 1895, she married that most handsome and eligible of contemporary Princetonians, Harold McCormick. The newspapers called her the Princess of Standard Oil. He was the Prince of International Harvester. She was a demure little blonde, with a high forehead, grey eyes and a mass of ringlets under her hat. She swam, skated, rode a horse and bicycle, but preferred to read and study. The newspapers wrote of a regal wedding but actually it was a quiet, private ceremony in a parlor...
...Died, Harold George ("Gino") Watkins, 25, British explorer; by drowning; near Angmagsalik, Greenland. In 1927, aged 20, Explorer Watkins accompanied an expedition into Labrador's interior, later commanded a Cambridge University Arctic expedition. In 1930 he headed a Greenland expedition, this year was surveying a possible route for Pan American Airways...