Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. William Roth Wister, son of Author Owen Wister (The Virginian), and Miss Frances Kearsley Mitchell, granddaughter of Edward Townsend Stotesbury...
...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
...list of Pulitzer prizes in TIME, May 20, you failed to include the name of Louis I. Jaffe, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot as having won the prize for the best newspaper editorial for the year...
Violinist Pochon is the wittiest and most talkative of the four. He had studied medicine, composed chamber music. His wife is a Virginian; he has a stepson of 14 and one child of his own. Cellist D'Archambeau is also married. Violinist Betti and Viola-player Moldavan are both bachelors, the one confirmed, the other eligible...
...very determined little Virginian will board the White Star liner Calgaric bound for the Mediterranean, for the Holy Land. He will be dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...