Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Edwina Marsh was a teenager, her father had once said: "My girl, don't be a fool-put your shoulders back, hold up your head, and don't be ashamed to show the world that you are shaped as a woman ought to be." But all her life she remained ashamed, awkward and uncontrollably shy. Now she was 41, "a big colourless woman in a brown skirt and a high-necked blue sweater. The shoulders were square, the neck long and firm, the legs straight and big, like pillars...
...close of last week's pageant, attended by Queen Elizabeth, St. Albans' headmaster, ruddy-faced Thomas William Marsh, allowed himself a nostalgic sigh. Said he: "St. Albans will be very dull next week, when everyone returns to bowler hats...
Showdown. Able, amiable Bill Norton was born and raised in Hampton, N.H., and prepped at Exeter. He left Harvard during his freshman year to support himself and three younger brothers after the death of their parents. Starting in Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., he worked his way up in various stores (e.g., W. T. Grant Co. and Filene's in Boston), until he joined Ward...
Final action on the group's charter, which had been applied for in March, came after President Wilbur K. Jordan received a letter from Lee Marsh, head of the Intercollegiate AYD, guaranteeing the 'Cliffe autonomous operation...
...Marsh, Intercollegiate Director of AYD, has written a long article (honestly entitled "Polemic) which claims that a tightly-organized group of Catholic students, directed by the Church hierarchy, has taken over the National Student Association. Unfortunately for Mr. Marsh's argument, he has slipped on many facts, and has carefully selected others. His statements that NSA's activities have been non-existent, and its policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn...