Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Intruder was composed by one Paul Eldridge with the following ingredients: Item: water adrip wears away stone, rain pitpat on roofs often melts morals. Item: since Aesculapius, physicians have seduced, been seduced by nurses. Item: wine stirs passion. In the office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience...
...Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal. He refused. The Archbishopric of York was in his hopes. Next year he gained it. . . . Able prelates last week mooted as successors to him at York are: Frederic Sumpter...
...replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather was heavy...
Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...
...other small schooners in the race -Mohawk, Nina, Pinta - were nearing the coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...