Word: merion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round of eight at the Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club last week, four of the seven members of the British team were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing...
...Josef Hofmann was so busy being a musical prodigy that he had little time for mechanical tinkering. Now, when his duties as iirector of the Curtis Institute of Music give lim time, he likes nothing better than to work in the laboratory of his Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...
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...Moliere's best and most popular plays. It is full of the lively and sparkling humor which always accompanies his stinging satires. To achieve the full realization of this quality on the stage without seriously sacrificing an appearance of reality, especial credit is due to R. D. Merion for his absolutely superb acting in bringing out the full possibilities of the character of Sganarells, the fake doctor. Even the most sedate Cambridge matrons were set to laughing by his extremely amusing actions and his well calculated speech. As Martine, the querulous and revengeful wife of Sganarelle, Miss Mary Loring gave...
...Philadelphia suburb of Merion he has built (behind a loft. spite fence) a French Renaissance chateau that contains the greatest collection of modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers...