Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never got there. Next he tried tutoring a small boy, but that lasted only a few weeks: "I don't particularly like small boys, and I had forgotten all my Latin." So then he proposed to Vivien, and she accepted him. Then he got a job with the Nottingham Journal, without pay, "just for the experience." But his prospective marriage confronted Greene with a deeper problem than the one of making a living. During the winter of 1926, he became a Roman Catholic...
...Pity Is the Worst." The first novel about Graham Greene might end there. Then he turned into a writer. In 1926, full of his Nottingham knowledge of journalism, he got a job as subeditor in the letters department of the London Times. On the side, he wrote two bad novels, which publishers encouragingly rejected. In 1929, Heinemann accepted The Man Within. It was reviewed by St. John Ervine as a "remarkable first novel" by a writer who "obliges us to believe in his people, even when his people seem determined we shall not believe in them...
John C. Pittenger '51, of Nottingham, Pa., and Dunster House, has won the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for a year's study in any nation of the British Commonwealth, Dean Bender announced today...
...handsome, upstanding fellow with a vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge it can be cut with a Damascus blade. And there, jam-bang in the middle of it all, awaiting her true knight, sits...
Also DeWitt S. Goodman, New York and Kirkland; Jules Kernen, St. Louis and Adams; Kenneth Keniston, Ann Arbor. Michigan and Eliot; Walker La Brunerie, Jr., St. Joseph, Missouri and Eliot; Andreas F. Lowenfeld, New York and Kirkland; John C. Pittenger, Nottingham, Pennsylvania and Dunster; Carl B. Schmitt, Norwalk, Connecticut and Adams; Donald H. Tilson, St. Louis and Lowell; Thomas E. Woesner, Wabash, Indiana and Lowell; William R. Wright, Courtland, N.Y. and Eliot...