Word: pelham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elita Proctor Otis, retired actress, daughter of the late William H. Otis, founder of the elevator company; at Pelham...
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...book is very pleasant reading nevertheless, though perhaps not as, good as some of his earlier work, particularly "Piracy." Many of the characters are already familiar. Venetia has the flavor of Tris March in the "Green Hat" or Shelmerdine in "The London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live...
Thomas W. Pelham, Vice President, Gillette Safety Razor Co.: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks, tore loose booms. The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho. Said I upon disembarking at Manhattan: 'The safety razor business is good all over Europe, and I am bringing back an order for 50,000 razors for the Kaffirs of Africa. The Kaffirs sell them to the tribesmen of the interior. Apparently they have grown weary of shells and glass as shaving tools...
...that if a woman won she would get $25,000 and the men nothing. And yet most of the best distance swimmers in the U. S. had taken his dare. There was Henry F. Sullivan who swam the English Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher-men declared that, if the bodies of these athletes...