Word: pell
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Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...
Alan Mowbray in the role made famous by Holbrook Blinn is no less effective, one suspects, than his more famous predecessor. The old uncle is usually amusing but not always convincing in the hands of C. Wordley Hulse. And Morris Carnovsky, as Morgan Pell, the unfortunate husband, is required by the author to confound all plausibility by announcing to his wife that dogs who do not know whom they belong to should be beaton, and wives as well...
...Leongs, the two tongs concerned in the present outbreak, fought in 1910. In 1912 the nephew of On Leong Mayor of Manhattan's Chinatown was killed by two Chinese, both subsequently electrocuted. In 1922 the head of the Hip Sings choked and fell faceforward upon the asphalt of Pell Street, Manhattan, with a bullet in his heart. Another war flickered briefly last year until it was ended by the efforts of Arbitrator Lee Kue Ying, rich merchant. Last week Ying, presumably of natural causes, perished. It was on the afternoon of his death that the wires from Boston began...
...dripping with perspiration, beat a small rubber ball against a wall, sock, sock, sock! They were Clarence C. Pell, National Racquets Champion, and Stanley G. Mortimer, his famed doubles partner, playing against each other in the annual singles "Gold Racquets" tourney at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Pell won the first game, 15-6; Mortimer the second, 15-8; Pell the third, 18-13; Mortimer the fourth, 15-10; Pell the fifth and the tournament...
...Racquet Club of Philadelphia, Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer, Manhattan racqueters, won the U. S. racquets doubles championship for the ninth straight year. They defeated Jay Gould (for 19 years U. S. singles court tennis champion) and Stanley W. Pearson of Philadelphia...