Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...
Harrier Hayden Channing each year forsakes track in the spring and goes in for Rugby; this season he is the captain of the team, while Alan Simpson holds out as the President of the Club. With the rather vague title of Secretary-Treasurer, Ned Whitney is what any other sport would call a playing manager...
Reputedly His Majesty is stipulating that Windsor must not wed sooner than ten days after the Coronation (May 12) and that the Duke & Mrs. Simpson must agree in writing not to act on stage, screen, radio programs or do memoirs or press articles...
...late Mrs. Simpson has hurried home from Riviera parties by midnight, for Windsor has taken to telephoning her at odd moments in the dead of night, as well as morning & evening. He sent her last week a home movie titled I Take Ski Lessons full of spills. Abruptly this week Mrs. Simpson and her Cannes hosts Mr. & Mrs. Herman L. Rogers piled into the royal Buick, sped toward the French chateau country through a rainstorm. All Mrs. Simpson's previous large trunks plus three new ones just arrived from Paris were shipped after her from Cannes. Riviera friends said...
...most magnificent house available for the Coronation. Its grounds are so extensive that one can go canoe-sailing in the lake, although this home of the second Mrs. Marshall Field III is in the heart of fashionable London. Not many years ago it was upon Mrs. Field, not Mrs. Simpson, that Edward danced attendance, lavishing flowers daily...