Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comedian. Lionel Atwill is confronted with the problem of aging gracefully in a few minutes. He appears as a distinguished actor whose mail is freighted with scented trifles. Among the young hearts fluttered by his brown wig and moustache is the adolescent ward of an old schoolmate of his. The latter, a rotund provincial, conceives a plan to break her of her attachment. Let her, thinks he, but see her idol as he is, gray-haired and middleaged, and she will march out of the dressing-room in disgust...
...final aftermath of the Firpo-Brennan conflict was the removal of Brennan to a New York hospital suffering concussion of the brain. The Evening Mail (New York) promptly published a screed of sympathy, but repeated emphatic assertions that Brennan's injuries were due to his own defensive neglect. Behind the Mail's annoyed murmurs is a widespread suspicion that Brennan made no serious attempt to win the fight...
...breakfast table reader who is always claiming that "they don't give you your money's worth these days", at last may find balm in Gilead. A penny weekly is published in England with the title alone of THE FARHAM. HASLEMERE AND HINDHEAD HERALD, ALTON MAIL, BORDON AND LONGMOOR JOURNAL, LIPHOOK AND LISS NEWS AND NORTH SUSSEX ADVERTISER...
Mystery increases. The Poetry Society and its innocent offspring, having been dragged into uncomfortable prominence in the Communication Column and elsewhere have not yet found the peace which they have earned. Yesterday's mail carried the ominous message from "eight representatives of the Harvard College of today", that a startling addition to contemporary literature will appear tomorrow. They further announce that their volume is "un-edited by the Harvard Poetry Society", and, as a final touch of mystification, declare that they "make themselves known through the voices of Eight More Harvard Poets", their predecessors...
...Philip Gibbs is an English journalist and novelist. His journalistic career began at the age of 21 when he became one of the editors of Cassell & Co. He is married and has one son. Cosmo Hamilton is his brother. Among publications, he has been connected with the Daily Mail, the Daily Chronicle, the Tribune. During the war he was a correspondent, with, at various times, the Bulgarian, French, English, Belgian, and British Armies. Since 1921 he has been editor of the English Review of Reviews. His home is in London. His reputation was made by his war books...