Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey...
...have a good round and beat a better one. None of these quite likely developments, usually described as reversals of form, occurred last week till the fifth round when the three most likely contestants lost their matches on the same afternoon. One was George Voigt, beaten by the young Nottingham clerk, Sidney Roper, who last year came close to putting Jones out of the tournament. The others were the onetime Champion Roger Wethered, who was runner-up to Bobby Jones last year, and beefy, self-important Cyril Tolley...
Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...
Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...
...Author. David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England, in 1885, went to Nottingham High School, Nottingham University. In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen. Declared consumptive three times and unfit for service, he was hounded by the military police. After the War he left England, wandered through Europe, lived in Italy, Australia, now lives in the U. S., 15 miles from Taos, N. Mex. He was a great friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, of her husband J. Middleton Murry...