Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Virginia Craigie McKay, Pittsburgh horsewoman and socialite; and A. Charles Schwartz, Manhattan poloist, owner of Jack Homer, 1926 winner of the Grand National Sweepstakes at Aintree, England; in Manhattan...
Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, since 1901 Parkman Professor of Theology, and George Fillmore Swain, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering since 1909, have resigned and will become Professors Emeritii, according to an announcement made at University Hall yesterday. The resignation of Professor Swain takes effect March 1, 1929, that of Professor Moore on September...
...Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
...Where's Mr. McKay's cottage?" cried Challengee Wales. The white-faced, starveling villagers pointed. He climbed the muddy stoop, rapped on the sleasy door. "Come in!" cried a child's voice, and H. R. H. entered to find two weeping little girls beside the bed of a grey-haired woman who lay stark and motionless. "Dead!" croaked a villager, "Starved?an' Old Frank 'as gone for 'er coffin...
...There the red fires of communism, which burned brightly a year ago, have been quenched by black hunger. Cowed communists cheered royalty. Suddenly the drab, depressing scene was enlivened as a motor hired by several press correspondents rattled up. They wanted Edward of Wales to meet his challenger?Frank McKay. Working fast they had found Old Frank in a neighboring village, ordering a coffin for his wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank came apologetically up to Challengee Wales...