Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Author Rogers is not overweening nor has he overreached his powers. He is mature, not precocious?maybe as the result of a cosmopolitan upbringing. He and his brothers were schooled in Switzerland. His summer vacations from college were all spent with the Meynell family in England?authors Wilfrid and Alice and their talented children. After college, where he had played at football and tennis as well as writing for the Advocate and Hasty Pudding (drama), he joined the World's Work staff, edited a roaring book of drinking songs (Full and By), contributed essays to the Saturday Review. Gusty...
Married. Queena Mario (nee Tillotson, near Akron, Ohio) noted chanteuse of Manhattan's famed Metropolitan Opera Company; to Wilfrid Pelletier, orchestral director of the Metropolitan; at Winnetka...
...Story. The book is about several Forsytes and several more of their connections. Chiefly, there is Fleur Mont, collector of people-celebrated people, very modern people. In her collection was Wilfrid Desert, poet, who became much too fond of her. Here was a problem. Fleur wanted him 'in the collection. On the other hand, she did not love him even as much as she loved her husband, Michael, Wilfrid's best friend. She tried for a long while to eat her cake and have it too. Wilfrid would deliver ultimata-demanding that she yield "now or never." Somehow...
...Premiers were forced to let it be known that they would be able to accept only a fraction of the numerous invitations they had received. The Daily Mail, Rothermere daily, applauded their decision, recalling "the Imperial Conference of 1907, when the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Canadian Premier; the late Premier Louis Botha of South Africa; and the late Dr. Leander Starr Jameson of Cape Colony were simultaneously ill from over-banqueting...
Alice Meynell, poet and essayist, leader in the English Catholic literary movement. Her Poems and A Father of Women display intense, controlled emotion, often devotional in subject. The Rhythm of Life and The Second Person Singular are essays. Her husband, Wilfrid Meynell, and herself rescued the poet, Francis Thompson, from starvation...