Word: noms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability as a statesman, President Roosevelt turned without warning to Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur le Premier Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis, me touchent projondément et je vous prie de croire que je suis très sensible à la chaleur de votre accueil...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
Some tepid discussion followed. Then, fortnight ago, a Protestant nunnery was described in America, urbane Jesuit weekly, by "The Pilgrim"-nom de plume for any staff member. Telling of tramping through Rhode Island, "The Pilgrim" said he came upon a convent, knocked at its door in hope of getting a cup of tea. The convent Portress gave him some. He inquired the name of the sisterhood...
...Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world two famous things. Behind its prescription counter labored a druggist named Lunsford Richardson, William Sidney Porter (nephew of Dr. Porter ) was one of his clerks. Clerk Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common remedy for colds), invented a Magic Croup Salve which he named after his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. In time Druggist...
...More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it. Oldest and most reliable society editor is Olga Gel- hause of the Bulletin...