Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion was the opening of the Order's Museum, recently built beside the Palace. In the course of his opening address, the President referred to the generosity of William Nelson Cromwell, American, who contributed 700,000 of the 2,000,000 francs ($100,000) raised for the new building, and of an unknown American (who persisted in remaining anonymous) who also lavishly contributed...
...American Room" was replete with prints, portraits, busts of Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Pershing, Harbord, William Nelson Cromwell...
...shilling, one is permitted to view the wax effigies of Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Lincoln and many another celebrity. At the door, stand two policemen who are standing jokes. Bobby No. 1 is asked a civil question, but declines to answer. Sometimes the inquisitor gets angry before he discovers his mistake. The other bobby is less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile...
...Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke the world's record for the indoor pole vault with a miraculous leap of 13 feet...
...There are five sons: John Dayison III, Nelson, Winthrop, Lawrence, David...