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Word: singleton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harcourt Amory '76, of Boston, his notable collection of Lewis Carroll books, pamphlets, and letters, containing many original drawings by John Tenniel, it was announced last night. This is a gift in memory of Mr. Amory from his widow and children, Gertrude A. Hutchins, Harcourt Amory '16, and John Singleton Amory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARROLL'S RARE BOOKS ARE GIVEN TO WIDENER | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...quality in the play with delightful results. William Duke, who wants a "keen" world, who likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery in her part; the other is too tautly expressive of the emotive possibilities of hers...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Mary Spas, 16, famed because of her adoption some months ago by wealthy Manhattan Realtor Edward W. Browning, who subsequently annulled the adoption after much adverse comment; to one Herbert W. Singleton, 21, of Denver, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Samuel Adams Edwin Booth Charles Bulfmch Horace Bushnell George .Rogers Clark John Singleton Copley Dorothea Lynde Uix Cyrus West Field William L. Garrison Nathaniel Greene Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson John Jay John Paul Jones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fame | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very smoke and reek which fired a Captain Singleton or the famous Kidd himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKING OF VOCATIONS | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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