Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years ago three men sat in a bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue...
...chances are that Coach Mitchell will call upon either W. H. MacHale '31 or R. R. Ketchum '29 to face the Lord Jeffs while the visitors will be represented on the mound by either Pratt or Nichols...
...scandal was unearthed at Scotland Yard last week, and London's police commissioner, General Lord Byng of Vimy, Viscount of Thorpe-le-Soken, sat up all night to investigate it. Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude. Officers of the special political branch of Scotland Yard were accused of fraternizing with foreign agents and communists...
...where the famed fair exhibit. As everyone knows, there is a, giant pattern business apart from, that of the magazines. Paris Pattern Co. has not only signed up the Ladies' Home Journal; it is out after contracts with the great department stores, has agreements with Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, Newark's Bamberger, Cleveland's Higbee, Philadelphia's Wanamaker, Washington's Woodward & Lathrop, Pittsburgh's, Home, Detroit's Crowley Milner, San Francisco's Emporium, Boston's White. Paris Patterns has also enlisted Wall Street, issued 30,000 shares of common stock...
...Nathans '30, Duke of Glastonbury; Maurice Kurnitsky '30, Lord Brooke of Brookehill; David White '29, Lord Cudworth; L. M. Shapiro '29. Charles Viscount Deeford; L. H. Weinstein 21, the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P.; N. J. Winer '31, Mr. Hugh Meyers; P. W. Winer 31, Sir Michael Probert, Bart.; Arnold Kowarsky '31, Mr. Lumley Foljambe; William Taub '32, Bascot, Disraeli's Butler; A. I. M. Abramson '29, Flooks, a rural postman...