Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engagement Broken, Between Kenneth Harington, 25, of London; and the Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 24, niece of Queen Elizabeth of England; after four years' betrothal. Explanation: none...
...standard Dictionary of American Slang, Lexicographer Maurice H. Weseen defines a "love nest" as "the home of a newly married couple." Uncovered last week in Culver City, Calif, was the most flagrant example in years of what every tabloid editor and reader means by a "love nest." None of the participants, mostly high-school students from Beverly Hills, was married...
Oberlin's most generous alumnus, however, was none of these but the late President Charles Martin Hall of Aluminum Co. of America. In 1886, when he was a poor 22-year-old Oberlin graduate, Chemist Hall completed the experiments he had started in an Oberlin laboratory more than a year before, discovered the electrolytic extraction process which made possible the commercial refinement of aluminum. As a result, Oberlin received $9,000,000, one third of Chemist Hall's estate, besides a statue of him as a young man, in glowing solid aluminum...
Last week, in appreciation of the spirit of the eight passengers, none of whom brought damage suits, and of the help given by Port Jervis, Eastern Air Lines held the world's first air crash reunion,* invited all concerned to the company's annual dinner in Manhattan. Six passengers showed up, as did 36 citizens of Port Jervis, including the mayor, police chief, forest ranger and county treasurer. Only one rescuer failed to appear-recluse Thomas Lyman. Found at his lonely cabin tending his only cow, he disconsolately refused because "She's a good...
...Woman. Of the Englishwomen of letters before Virginia Woolf (Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes) none had her advantages. She was brought up as a young lady of the Edwardian era, with all a young lady's privileges but no prunes and prisms. She was too delicate to go to school, and no Edwardian restrictions were put on her reading. She never lost her faith for she was never taught any. And her huge connection (her eight brothers and sisters had two different fathers) gave her entree into the useful worlds of English literature and English society...