Word: frederick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth...
...Devil to Pay (Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake...
...came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence of what he calls "peace circles" upon the White House...
Rare have been the scientists' wives who could join actively in their husbands' scientific pursuits. In most such unions, the couples have met and worked together as young students. Marie Sklodowska was 27 when she first knew Pierre Curie at the Sofbonne. The George Frederick Dicks (she was Gladys R. Henry) worked together at McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (Chicago), developed their famed scarlet fever test nine years later as man & wife. University of Pennsylvania has its Clarks-Dr. Elliott Round and Eleanor Acheson Linton-who have done notable work together on cell microscopy...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor, II200 * Arthur Whitfield Huguley 146 * Edward Sutherland Amaseen 130 * Samuel Lawrence Batchelder 127 * Stephen Pierce Duggan 126 * Phillips Finlay 121 John White Hallowell 115 Paul Allison Ketchum 86 William Henry MacHale 72 Paul Marlor Sweezy 70 James Barrett Baldwin 64 Rawn Brinkley 63 Frederick Herman Gade, II 60 Edward Kuhn Straus 58 John Adams Blanchard, II 53 Robert Livingston Scott 52 Marshall Stearns, Jr. 49 Andrew Glark Ingraham...