Word: pelham
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Stuart Fuller Ayres of Pelham Manor, New York, has been nominated for the office of Class Poet. The petition, though received late, has been accepted by the Nomination Committee. William Enos Soule of Newton, who was nominated for Odist by petition on Sunday evening, has announced his resignation. No further nominees for this office will be chosen, as there are already two candidates...
Died. Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham...
...neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown...
This illegal traffic to the inner man was conducted on a large scale, and was as severely punished by the authorities as is that of latterday liquefied bootlegging. In the court records of 1672, is an entry to the effect that "Edward Pelham, of the Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following...
Died. Herbert Claibourne Pell. 73, distinguished descendant of the Pells of Pelham Manor (N. Y.), retired lawyer, father of Herbert Claibourne Pell Jr. (onetime Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee), and of Clarence C. Pell, famed U. S. racquet champion (see p. 35); at Manhattan, of apoplexy...