Word: roderick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twins getting mixed up in a highly involved plot, the author has sustained the interest of the reader admirably through the greater part of the volume. This interest is one which is centered entirely on the unraveling of the mysterious situation into which the reader and the hero, Roderick Hazzard, are thrown together. Without the plot, the work would have no content whatever. All the characters are over idealized and show no real development or subtlety throughout the three hundred odd pages of rapidly moving action...
...wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
Divorced. Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, from Roderick Tower, son of Charlemagne Tower, onetime (1899-1902) Ambassador to Russia, onetime (1902-08) Ambassador to Germany; in Paris. She charged desertion...
...Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first...
...Story. Lavinia Roderick, light of step and heart, the fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire...