Word: nelle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most royal favorites have been the object of romantic interest rather than of affection. A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury. She was said herself to have had a warm and kindly heart. Almost the last words of her cynical royal protector were said to have been: "Let not poor Nelly starve...
Both the individual and the meet honors went to the University yesterday afternoon when the University cross-country team snowed M. I. T. under, 20-37, just after the Freshman harriers had defeated the Tech first-year men, 24-38. Cutcheon and O'Nell took first in the University and Freshman events respectively...
...Nell had no difficulty in reaching the finish before Chute of Tech in the Freshman race. The Crimson Freshman finished five seconds ahead of Chute without extending himself to the limit...
Child's bank was founded about 1560 and has occupied the same site in Fleet Street ever since. Among its noted depositors have been Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys, Horace Walpole, John Dryden, Charles II, the Merry Monarch, and his famous mistress Nell Gwyn...
...Greenough, Mrs. Robert H. Gross, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. Paul M. Hamlen, Miss Mary Caroline Hardy, Mrs. B. J. Harrison, Mrs. Francis Lee Higginson, Mrs. Alexander H. Ladd, Mrs. David M. Little Jr., Mrs. A. Law.ence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Frederick Moseley, Mrs. Richard F. O'Nell, Mrs. Robert Pruyn, Mrs. Herbert N. Rawlins; Mrs. Hugh Scott, Mrs. Ralph A. Stewart, Mrs. William O. Taylor, Mrs. Guy Waring, Mrs. John Wylde