Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Orr School are the Philadelphia Inquirer's one-legged, cigar-chewing Hugh Hutton, whose Brain Truster is more ominously idiotic than Hearstling Swinnerton's, and the Los Angeles Times's young Bruce Russell, whose Franklin Roosevelt is the ugliest...
Amid the cloistered books & beams of the Provost's Lodge at Eton College, most famed of Britain's swank public schools and academic nursery of England's royalty and peerage, sat last week the newly appointed Provost of Eton, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, alumnus of Eton and Oxford, Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 26 years. Ever since Henry VI, who founded Eton in 1440, appointed one of his chief advisers to preside over the College's governing body as Provost, this office...
...tune with ancient tradition Lord Hugh was installed last week in the presence of the genial and patriarchal Dean of Windsor representing King Edward VIII, Eton's Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School...
...desertion of the Democratic Party and for denouncing President Roosevelt, George Peek received a quick rebuke from his former partner Hugh Johnson. The crusty old cavalryman and columnist, who, like Peek, left the New Deal after bickering with Braintrusters, stepped up to a microphone in Philadelphia two evenings later, declared President Roosevelt had broken no agricultural promises, declared Peek's attack "the most unfair yet launched at the President...
...Holy Rollers gathered two Sundays ago in Virginia near Mulberry Gap on the Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home...