Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...
...Thomas Nelson Perkins '91 has been chosen to succeed Thomas William Lamont '92 as president of the Harvard Alumni Association. At the election, which took place at the annual October meeting of the directors this week, two vice presidents were selected, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, and E. H. Wells...
...light. . . ." Suddenly collecting herself, one of the girls snapped the switch, "I'll go." A black shape glided out the window; the two girls lay whispering for hours. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask, a revolver, in the trunk of one Eric Nelson, British, in the cubicle overhead. Disorderly Mr. Nelson was arrested...
...sustain sympathetic understanding of the feelings of men who stood recently in danger of being deprived of all interest in an enterprise to which they had given the best energies of their lives, or else of being, in Arthur Brisbane's phrase, "sold with the plantation." For Colonel Nelson, was only one of three publishers of important newspapers to evince in his will that he did not care a fiddlestick what became of his newspaper after he had gone. "To be sold." Frank Munsey and Victor Lawson used the same phrase...
...Colonel Nelson was an able and conscientious editor. His paper was a paper of "ideals"-none more so. His habit of printing a great deal of miscellaneous but accurate information about science, invention, exploration, literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those...