Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large-headed little gnome whose name is Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world...
...unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be jor fornication, and shall marry another, committing adultery; and whose married her which is put away doth commit adultery.-Matthew...
Meanwhile President Hoover strengthened his advisory committee by appointing to it Owen D. Young and four others. The Brotherhood of Brooklyn Edison Employes publicly protested the selection of their company's president, Matthew Scott Sloan, for this committee, on the ground that he had turned out 2,000 workers last spring, was not sincerely interested in unemployment relief. Retorted Mr. Sloan: "I don't know what the Brother hood of Brooklyn Edison Employes is." Not all of the President's advisory committeemen were as opposed as he to direct Federal aid. Declared President William Green...
...Author, like his hero, was born in South London, in 1885. A fellow of University College in London and a graduate of Oxford, he has taught English & History at Oxford and now, as Matthew Arnold did in 1851, holds an appointment as one of His Majesty's inspectors at the Board of Education. In 1924, he was lent by the Board of Education to investigate and report on the educational system of Egypt and the Sudan. Hitherto a better known educationalist than writer, he has published three volumes of verse; edited, in 1912, The Works of Thomas Deloney. Albert Grope...
...name. Last week, in the July Photoplay James R. Quirk gave the answer. He had received 3,000 letters from people who thought Arbuckle should be permitted to resume cinemacting; among the letter-writers were the foreman of the first Arbuckle jury and San Francisco District Attorney Matthew Brady who prosecuted...