Word: abell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything always happens for the worst, the philosophic storekeeper back home used to wiseacre, but the Frake family are off to Des Moines and the Iowa State Fair, and nothing better could happen than that. Abel Frake guides the rumbling truck along the moonlit country roads. Beside him, his wife Melissa straddles the box of pickles she will exhibit. Their children, Margy and Wayne, are not in such a happy state of mind. Before they left, Margy had quarreled with her boy Harry because he kissed her, Wayne with his girl Eleanor because she would not kiss...
Back to the farm go the happy Frakes. Melissa will settle down to good home life again. Abel will see that Blue Boy propagates more perfect pigs. Margy and Wayne will return to Harry and Eleanor, able now to love without being abashed by love's physiology...
When President-elect Abel assumes office at Atlantic City next Christmas holiday, he may have a great announcement to make. Established to his honor at Johns Hopkins is the John Jacob Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold. Francis Patrick Garvan, who four years ago created the fund, so far has given to it $173,750 of the Chemical Foundation's wealth, will during the next year give another $36.250. Then he will stop giving and the Research on the Common Cold will have concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations...
...California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone which regulates blood pressure). He is the first pharmacologist president in the A. A. A. S.'s 83 years...
Married. Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge, 25, niece of Queen Mary of England, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone; and Capt. Henry Abel Smith, 32, of the Royal Horse Guards; in Balcombe, Sussex. Present were Queen Mary, Prince Edward of Wales (once reported engaged to Lady May) and most of the royal family. Among the bridesmaids: Princess Ingrid of Sweden, small Princess "Lilybet" who thus made her début. Lady May wore the lace veil which Queen Mary and the Countess of Athlone had worn, omitted "obey"-first British royal bride...