Word: merton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
...camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy. Their belief is supported by Show People which, in spite of Marion Davies' acting. King Vidor's directing, and the hilarious rehearsal of a pie-comedy, reminds you that Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies, written seven years ago, was both funnier and more human than anything dealing with the same subject has been since...
Professor Garrod has been Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire since 1918, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society. He has been Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 1923, and is at present a fellow of Merton College, Oxford...
Four day later U. S. Marines moving to support the detachment which held Quilali again shed blood, theirs and the enemies. A Marine was killed; five wounded, including Lieutenant Merton A. Richal. No count was possible of rebel casualties. Fleeing comrades carried them away...
...Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War, he functioned as assistant editor of The Egoist, récherché London magazine. Today he is editor of The Criterion, a neoteric quarterly of pronounced modernist tendencies...