Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Young's wireless from the Aquitania prevented this question from being answered. "Please," he begged, "let me come home quietly. . . . We [Thomas Nelson Perkins and Thomas W. Lament, his Reparations colleagues] cannot find in our hearts justification for the acceptance of such an honor for a service rendered as private citizens which any number of other Americans could or would have done as well. . . ." When fog trapped the Aquitania 200 miles out of New York, slowing her progress, Hero Young became impatient. The next day his eldest son, Charles Jacob Young, was being married in Cleveland to Miss...
...doubted whether Harvard ever received a gift which combined the qualities of abiding elemental human interest, with the highest range of international historical importance, more inextricably interwoven than in the collection of Lord Nelson letters and documents formed by Joseph Husband, '08. Trafalgar saved the British Empire, to all appearances, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English...
...mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson...
...university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...
...program at the University Theatre this week offers two bits of better than usual quality. The leading picture is the story of Horatio Nelson and Ema Hart. This is admirably presented with Victor Varconi and Corinne Griffith in the leading roles and ably assisted by H.B. Warner. These three give well-shaded characterizations in what is a rather elaborate picture. If there is any main fault to be found with this offering it is the overabundance of material. The scenes follow in such profusion that at times the thread of the story is completely lost but in spite...