Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead are: Capt. Osceola A. Browning, Corporal Henry Williams and Privates Anderson, Durant, Campbell, Wright and Barnes...
...WRIGHT...
...sentiment were amazed at the impotent efforts of that angry septuagenarian, Viscount Gladstone, and his elder brother, Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy. "Why don't they put their foot on him in court and crunch him into a smear...
...Montreal, the Australians Patterson and Hawkes fulfilled expectations by their easy elimination of the Canadian team, Crocker and Wright...
...decision of Messrs. Nash and Grayson, publishers of Captain Peter Wright's Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3), to change "to pursue and possess every sort of woman" into "to pursue every sort of woman" not only pleased Lord Gladstone, whose father, the late Premier William Ewart...