Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...
...writing "Frenchie" instead of "Frenchman." Still I believe that a better word than "Britishman" can be coined. What is really needed, however, is some word which will describe we citizens of the Dominions who are not Britishmen, at all. We "Canadians" are fortunate in our name, and so are the "Australians"; but "New Zealanders" is awkward, and "South Africans" sounds as though one meant the blacks. It's all quite a problem. Personally I am still "Englishman" enough to be glad that my father was "a soldier of the Queen," though I would hate to have to fight...
Missouri. When handsome, eloquent and often blatant Senator James A. Reed was thwarted in his presidential ambitions, he said he was through with politics-but not quite. He wanted to name his successor in the Senate. He picked a Wet named James A. Collet. He compared Candidate Collet's opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright...
...stalwart young Spaniard who sailed last week into Manhattan on the Paris is Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, 24, whose name is identical with that of his father, the 58-year-old Dictator of Spain...
Salvage Director arrives within 95 minutes after the disaster, by airplane, from Rome. Name: General Naval Engineer Bernardis, subordinate to Admiral Foschini...