Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuously absent from the ball was fun-loving, publicity-shy Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who stayed home with her husband, Adman John R. Marsh. Said friends: "Her dad's ailin...
...Some 3,000,000 acres of waterfowl marsh are privately owned...
...appointment of Gaspar G. Bacon '08 as assistant professor of Government and United States Citizenship on the Maxwell Foundation at Boston University was announced yesterday by Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, President of the University...
...Marsh became Winston Churchill's secretary at the Colonial Office. For Marsh it was love at first sight which he never got over. Soon Winston had Lion Hunter Marsh lion-hunting in Africa, although he would not trust Marsh with a gun until a wounded rhinoceros charged him (Churchill had shot it while it was sleeping). For days they traveled through the tropical vegetation where Lady Cromer's maid had once asked: "How long, my Lady, must we tarry in this shrubbery?" At Khartoum, Churchill's valet died. Writes Marsh: "I was grateful to him [Churchill] for his confidence...
...Marsh the literary great seem to generate no spark. Strangely flat are his reminiscences of Anatole France, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and A. E. Housman to whom Marsh credits this Regents Board bettering of Wordsworth: First Don: 0 cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice...