Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard...
...fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter...
...Tudor Cup, given by three classmates of John Tudor '29, is awarded annually to "the player who is of the greatest value to Harvard hockey, not so much because of his ability but because of his heart." The recipient of the trophy is supposed to be the player who best exemplifies John Tudor's qualities. Ford, captain elect of the 1937 squad, was center on last year's squad, and has been on the varsity football team...
...greatest failure of the Elizabethan age, and outside his native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the Tudor and the older nobility frowned on him as an upstart. After a fitful attendance at Oxford some fighting in the Low Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid rise. Biographer Thompson...
...TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...