Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence, D. D. Lloyd, R. G. Luckey, J. R. McGinley, 2nd, William McKennan, R. I. McKesson, J. A. Marcus, Daniel Merriman, Beecher Moore, Vernon Munroe, Jr., Peyton Murray, Harry Nicholas, Jr. R. S. Ogden, T. M. Page Geoffrey Parsons, Jr., T. N. Perkins, Jr., C. C. Perry, C. E. Pickhardt, Jr., L. F. Percival...
That evening Geoffrey Gill was dismissed from school "for a gross breach of discipline and a grave impropriety to his Royal Highness...
Scholars from the Leyton County High School stood in a respectful row last week to receive the official inspection of His Royal Highness Edward of Wales. As H. R. H. passed down the line, one Geoffrey Gill, 15, piped: "Please, Sir, mayn't I have your autograph...
British newspapers headlined the incident. The father of Improper Geoffrey wrote to St. James's Palace, asking if the Prince had really been annoyed by the request. Result: a two-page autograph letter for Improper Geoffrey, marked "Strictly Private, Not for Publication," and Geoffrey's hasty reinstatement in the school...
John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Reverently the financier turned the crackly pages, gravely he viewed an inset miniature of Sir Geoffrey with two ladies. Presently he laid the Psalter down, said that it ought not leave England...