Word: howards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English team was composed of three of the best speakers among the younger English public men. There were J. Beverley-Nichols, novelist, ex-president of the Oxford Union; N. A. Beechman, also an ex-president of the Oxford Union; and Major G. H. Howard, ex-aviator and a prominent member of the Union. The 1922 Oxford team, which invaded America for the first time, named M. Christopher Hollis, traveler, magazine writer and a recognized wit; Magbool Mahmood, member of a distinguished family of India and president of the Oxford University international assembly; and Edward Majoribanks, probable successor to Lord Tweedmouth...
Centers--W. J. Anderson, C. E. Brown, Creighton Churchill, D. B. Dorman, R. S. Holden, Henry Howard, C. P. Jackson, T. S. Kernan, F. N. Rich. L. M. Shapiro...
...undeniably the greatest of the younger actresses, gives the finest performance of her extraordinary career. She rather took Iris March away from Michael Arlen and made her personal property. For her acting alone the production is magnificently worth while. Margalo Gill- more gave brilliant life to Venice; Leslie Howard was pretty good as Napier. Cynics may be disappointed, but The Green Hat will unquestionably enjoy a prosperous existence...
Richards won from Rene Lacoste, Johnson from Alonzo, Williams from Howard Kinsey. In the semi-final round Tilden, after dropping the first set, paid Vincent Richards the compliment of opposing him with his utmost, with the consequence that Richards steadily lost hope and games, going to pieces in the last set to surrender, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Johnston devoted 47 minutes to the disposal of Richard Norris Williams 2nd, who as usual could not summon his own brilliance when he needed it most...
...Davis in recommending such an investigation by outsiders. President Coolidge promptly acted on the suggestion. He named a board of nine: Major General James G. Harbord, retired, President of the Radio Corporation of America; Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, retired; Dwight W. Morrow, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; Howard E. Coffin, consulting engineer, aeronautics expert; Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, formerly in the Air Service, now a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee; Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, of the House Naval Affairs Committee; Representative James S. Parker of N. Y., Chairman of the House Committee on Interstate Commerce...