Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeffrey John Archer, Viscount Holmesdale, great-grandson of famed Lord Jeffrey Amherst, whose name Amherst College bears: "For some months I have assisted Alexander Woollcott by writing dramatic reviews for the New York World, modestly signed with two of my many initials-J. H. Last week I received word that my father, the Fourth Earl of Amherst, aged 71, was desperately ill. Forthwith, I sailed for England hoping to see him alive. Three days out, I heard that he had died suddenly; found myself Fifth Earl of Amherst...
...Lord Jeffrey Amherst was a soldier of the king And he sailed from across the se-ee-ee-ea; To the Frenchmen and the Indians he didn't do a thing In the wilds of this wild countree-ee-ee. In the wilds of this wild country...
...which the song rightly belongs, but no haphazard gathering of U. S. college songsters, however diverse their allegiances, would be unable to render it, "swipes" and all, with never a look at one another, heads tilted back and eyes shut tight for the roaring refrain. Thus, when the Lord Jeffrey Inn was opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join...
...that William Pitt commissioned Jeffrey Amherst, already a seasoned campaigner of 41, as major general with the British colonial forces in America. After the taking of Louisburg that July, Amherst was promoted to full command of all these forces. After the fall of Montreal he was made Governor General of British North America. If indeed he "looked around for more when he was through," he found all he sought, for the Indians under Pontiac gave him more trouble than all his other campaigns put together, in fact had much the best of it. He was made governor of Virginia...
...prowess at arms and the game beloved of a certain Marquis of Queensbury betakes himself forth upon his highway. And many adventures curious and great test the stick and the dog and the prowess. For there are always evils to meet on any highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life. So it is a victorious Jeremy who faces the reader as the book ends, an impossibly epic Jeremy-and a delightfully epic...