Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author began her list of works with A Century of Revolution, which is not at all like either herself or her later writings, and in which nobody who reads her novels takes more than a studious interest. The Ladies of Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing...
...commencement program of Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndon, Ky., near Louisville, carried the name of Mark A. Hanna III. His high marks, averaging 93%, had won him the highest honors of the 1927 class; he was to make the valedictory address. When, later, he rose to speak, an 18-year-old oval-cheeked boy, he reminded auditors of an able man whom he had never seen-the late U. S. Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, his great grandfather, who died...
Divorced. By Mrs. Grace Shotwell Marson, daughter of the late Bishop Charles Sumner Burch of the N. Y. Protestant Episcopal Diocese; Captain Arnaldo Marson; in White Plains, N. Y. At the same time her son, Lyndon Walkup Burch, divorced his wife Isabelle Keyes Burch. Captain Marson, husband of Bishop Burch's daughter had eloped with Bishop Burch's granddaughter-in-law Isabelle...
...LYNDON PHIFER Brevity, accuracy, significance moved TIME to the adoption of such titles as Teacher, Evolutionist, Philosopher, Publisher, Ditchdigger, Bootlegger, Undertaker, Politician, etc., before last names. The teaching of Messrs. Bent and Ross is standard in the newspaper world. TIME, to be concise and to the point, breaks this and other canons of journalism.-ED. Fears Ridicule...
...shown her mettle before. In school, her poetry took a prize; but she took to prose when Poet Yeats scribbled "alpha minus" after her best effort. She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play. The Ladies of Lyndon was one of the bright features...