Word: philip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PHILIP ROMANS...
...French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president. Often he travels in Canada, in South America, less often in the U. S. Last summer he was in Algiers. Arrested with the Count last week was one Philip Gowen who, according to M. de Polignac "was American agent of my company from 1904 till the Prohibition Law." He alone of the 32 who formed the ''ring" at the time of his arrest did M. de Polignac claim to know. Later developments: the Count de Polignac sailed...
...knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself with "dramaturgy" rather than "show business," as would befit the son of Author Philip Littell (onetime editor of the New Republic) and the product of well-mannered Groton School (Groton, Mass.), where boys who read Shelley and play Mozart are often encouraged. Now 33, Robert Littell's youth included Harvard and the U. S. army of occupation in Russia and book reviews...
Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...