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...same day in the House of Representatives at Havana, Representative Urquiaga accused Representative Acosta of "provincialism." A moment later both men, brandishing revolvers, were separated with difficulty...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
Arabesque. Norman-Bel Geddes is the unchallenged genius of scenic design in this country. It was he who designed The Miracle. He has, strangely enough, an urge to direct rather than design exclusively. He directed Eva Le Gallienne in a play by Mercedes d'Acosta about "Jehanne" d'Arc in Paris last summer, and set back by a couple of decades the never too robust artistic reputation of America in the eyes of the French...
...their own in order to succeed in war. If it is possible to create a science of war, it may not be impossible to create a science of peace." At this a lady who has done much for Johns Hopkins clapped her hands together. She was Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, who started the drive for the Johns Hopkins Eye Hospital (TIME, Feb. 23, MEDICINE). That evening Dr. Goodnow, Dr. Young, dined in state at the Maryland Club with many other notables...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...