Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most-talked-of political clique in 1938 was the "Cliveden Set," the name applied to a group of eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Last week the trustees made up their minds, appointed a fifth churchman, Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, 50, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. But while Dr. Nash is an ordained minister, his resemblance to his predecessors ends there. Dr. Drury was high church. Dr. Nash is low church and anything but austere...
...Norman Nash's birth was hastened two months by the jolting of a train on which his mother traveled to the family's summer house in Maine. When he had grown up, his father, also a minister, was fond of saying: "He was born in a hurry and has been in a hurry ever since." Tall, lean and bounding with energy, Norman Nash was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School, studied at Cambridge in England, was a chaplain in the War and went back to teach at Episcopal for 19 years. Meanwhile he raised two daughters...
Window Shopping (by Louis E. Shecter & Norman Clark) tells of a near-bankrupt department store which, as a desperation publicity stunt, has a young girl live by day, then undress and sleep by night, in one of its windows. The girl packs the store with customers. It will be more of a trick to pack the theatre with them...
...Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction, Sir Richard Gregory will have no successor. Henceforth the editorial affairs of Nature will be managed by a board...