Word: tennyson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called Dinkey Magazines), germinated the Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made the only attempt to publish a U. S. literary daily (the editors burned out in a fortnight), soon fizzled out as a general publisher. He ended as an authority on industrial pension plans, inventor...
Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London...
After the war, he rose in the Royal Air Force, married Olive Tennyson Foster, of Back Bay, Boston, and settled down to a life of thorough work and enthusiastic gardening. Now he is red-faced, grey-haired, tightlipped, taciturn, tough-a model of a gallant airman. The only thing he loves better than a party is a party from which newspapermen are barred. There is, however, one thing he hates more than a reporter-any man who shows...
Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering...
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, Lord Somers, Deputy Chief Scout of Britain's Boy Scouts, issued a war order to all scouts to wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...