Word: essex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bartholomew's Church, Harvard and Essex...
...early on. In December 1986 Joan Jacobson, a housing reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, received a tip: Rhode Island developer Judith Siegel was throwing James Watt's name around HUD offices in Baltimore in connection with a low-income-housing rehabilitation project that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit Kingsley Park development but could not turn...
...most notable example was that of James Watt, former Interior Secretary and bete noire of environmentalists everywhere. He got $300,000 to help a developer get 312 units of such housing started in Essex, Md., in 1986. His "minimal" role, according to the report, was "to convince the right people that the projects were good and were needed...
...then to Italy, where he may have spent five years. How he afforded that stay is a mystery; one theory holds that Jones, who never married and may have been homosexual, was kept by one or another of the powerful exquisites of the Elizabethan court, the Earl of Essex or the Earl of Southampton. But whatever his arrangements, his taste for European travel and study would change the face of English culture. As curator Harris points out, Jones was the first in what would be a long line of English intellectual travelers, bringing lessons back from the Continent...
Bette Davis was in four movies (Dark Victory, Juarez, The Old Maid and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex), as were Claudette Colbert (Drums Along the Mohawk, Midnight, It's a Wonderful World and Zaza) and Mickey Rooney (Huckleberry Finn, Babes in Arms and two movies in his enormously successful Andy Hardy series). Rooney, incidentally, was No. 1 at the box office that year. Greta Garbo laughed, as the ads triumphantly proclaimed, in Ninotchka; Ingrid Bergman made her American debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned...