Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owen Johnson has been married five times, has written three classics (The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become...
Wilfred Brandon is the most modern-minded U. S. spirit to tell earthlings about his own particular brand of the Hereafter, a realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...
Last month in Copenhagen, a newshawk cornered Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
Last week Washington newshawks discovered the import of this exchange when Madam Minister Owen joyfully confirmed reports that she was about to marry for the third time. Husband No. 3 was to be Captain Boerge Rohde, tall, flaxen-haired member of King Christian's Life Guards. Kammerjunker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Kaptajn Rohde, his fiancee confided, was 42, musically inclined, a graceful dancer, a man of wit & humor. They had met at His Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore...