Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yards--W. R. Mansfield...
Engagement Denied. Roland Hayes, U. S. Negro tenor; to the Countess Coloredo-Mansfield (née Kolowrat-Krakowski) of Vienna...
...born of Scotch Presbyterian and farmer stock near Mansfield, Ohio, not far from the birthplace of his dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions...
...rumbling of trucks that startled Mansfield, Kingston, Stonington and other towns on the New Haven road yesterday was not the vanguard of a traveling circus. Neither will be the bulging baggage cars, automobiles and the general stars of an anabasis that will stream along the Shore Line during the next 24 hours. All the activity will be that of the preliminaries required before the Harvard football team can play the Yale football team in the Bowl tomorrow...
After he published his first novel, a boldish tale for its day (1902), it was not adulation but inherent self-confidence that made him vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake...