Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have gone to Drug. But Druggist Liggett, onetime patent medicine drummer, has never interfered much with Boots management, although he has encouraged it to sell picture frames, stationery, leather goods and other nonpharmaceutical lines. Boots management has remained an English management headed by John Campbell Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham...
...flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with this in mind, that they might be equally effective from all sides. Subjects were catholic, but each told a story, generally a sentimental one, never satiric: "Fetching the Doctor...
...came, she tried to be a Red Cross nurse, but ''fainted at operations, cried when the patients cried, and was sick when they were sick, so that was no use." She went into an office instead, married her boss, who is now Director of Education for Nottingham. Greenbanks, which was the September choice of the English Book Society, is her third novel (first two: Young Anne, High Wages). Says Authoress Whipple: "I begin each novel gaily, then I get drawn in, it becomes an extremely serious business, it looms up and covers my life. I live like...
Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...
...sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...