Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the prayer offered last week by Mrs. Chaplain General Matthew Brewster of New Orleans, for deceased national officers, state regents and the 2,067 death roll of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who last week held their 36th "Continental .Congress," at Washington...
...Buckingham Palace came Sir James Matthew Barrie. Perhaps because most people think irresistibly of him as Peter Pan not-quite-grown-up, Sir James enjoys, even from Royalty, something like the indulgence accorded in every British heart to Peter. Therefore, last week, though 300 guests were present at the royal tea, Sir James approached the Queen-Empress and whispered a request in her ear, as even good little boys sometimes do with their grown-up hostess...
...tiptoe, then, Sir James Matthew Barrie came to the crib in which lay Princess Elizabeth (just one year old on April 21), daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. Perhaps the baby, with feminine intuition, realized how near she was to Peter Pan. Despatches told that she stirred in her sleep, wakened for an instant and looked sleepy-eyed at the smiling man in thin-rimmed glasses, white stiff collar, and impeccable frock coat who stood, still atiptoe, beside her crib. Then, with a small pink yawn, Her Royal Highness dismissed Sir James...
...MATTHEW...
...wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with his conception of a perfect woman, a small divorcee with every quiet grace and no questions. When...