Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily port-to-port races as the cruise progressed?Morris Cove to Greenport, Greenport to Montauk, etc. etc.? arch-competitors were the celebrated Vanitie and Resolute, big international cup racers. The Resolute, owned by E. Walter Clarke of Philadelphia, beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, in 1920. Lately, and last week, she has lost consistently to the Vanitie, which Gerald Lambert bought last year from Harry Payne Whitney...
...Shrewd observers soon suspected an excellent motive behind the Archbishop's words. They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...
When he further announced the appointment of Sir Edwin L. Lutyens as architect, the idea of opposition acquired still more potency. Than the Catholics' Sir Edwin and the Anglicans' Sir Giles, England has no more famed architects. Catholic Sir Edwin, 60, designed the Government House in Delhi (India), many memorials, is an eclectic, fastidious craftsman. Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments...
...dramatists, musicians, authors and persons appreciative of the arts. Among the membership of 2000 are David S. Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood...
MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy summoned, found sufficient circumstantial evidence to make the prosecution think it had a clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs...