Word: nevin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contempt. Three Washington Times newsmen ? Gorman M. Hendricks, Linton Burkette, Jack Nevin Jr. ? visited 49 capital speakeasies and bought drinks. They then contributed their experiences, with addresses and names deleted, to an exposé of Washington liquor conditions. Quickly summoned before the Grand Jury, they were asked to supply names, addresses, dates ? the specification for legal complaints. These they declined to give, on the ground that their admission to the speakeasies was on a confidential basis, that they were not dry agents, that to answer the Grand Jury's questions would violate their professional ethics...
Young Alexander. The business of translating ancient idols for modern idlers is not new. John Erskine and Robert Emmet Sherwood have taken the edge off the novelty. It would seem that Hardwick Nevin had moments of realizing all this while he was writing his play about Alexander the Great, for he abandons the modern idiom from time to time in his treatment and launches forth into high-sounding blank verse. The result is confusion. Neither young Alexander nor the audience get anywhere...
...Gold Coast Orchestra will lend a more than modern touch in its first spring appearance away from Cambridge, with futuristic interpretations of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "Pale Moon" by way of contrast to selections such as those from Chaminade, Nevin and Kreisler which will be presented by the Mandolin Club and specialty numbers...
...been announced as follows: 1. Under the Double Eagle Up the Street Banjo Club Wagner Morse Up the Street Morse Banjo Club 2. Invictus Huhn The House by the Side of the Road Galesian Football Songs Vocal Club 3. Specialty Act S. W. Burbank '29 4. Liebesfrend Kerisler Narcissus Nevin Narcissus Nevin Mandolin Club 5. Specialty Act J.S.B. Archer '31 6. Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Specialty Act Robert Reinhart '29 8. Landsighting Grieg The Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club 9. Football Medley Arranged by Rice Banjo Club 10. Fair Harvard Combined Clubs
...York World featured Merchant Nevin thus: "In conversation he occasionally indulges in polite stories...