Word: urquhart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American Piano (chartered in 1908) had a long and successful business career until 19-27, when common dividends were first passed. In 1928 the last preferred dividends were paid and the year ending March 31, 1929, showed a deficit of $235,235. Last July President George Urquhart reported that "decline in demand for pianos which started in 1927 continued through 1928, and in the present year to date...
Last week, Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror reported that Biographer Winkler's "confidential, unimpeachable" source on Rockefeller data was Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman...
RABELAIS-Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences...
...Anne Urquhart Stillman, 48, wife of a rich man who was once a banker, has long had dealings with reporters. She has thrown crockery at them, which has served only to make them come closer. At last, she has taken some of them into her pay, for she has financed and founded Panorama, "New York's Illustrated News Weekly." The first red-covered issue appeared last week. About half of it consisted of good-to-excellent photographs, and half, of poor-to-passable articles. Neither photographs nor articles were apropos anything in particular...
Every day for 30 years she drank a pint and a half. Last week she died. Dr. D. A. Urquhart pronounced her "virtually pickled alive." Her drink was commercial vinegar; her name was Miss May Robsley of Shrewsbury, England; her weight was 38 pounds...