Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected, finally succeeded by sending Mrs. Burch out of the room. So effective was the result that many a touched reader called Union Central agents to ask about the picture; and a woman in Memphis sobbed over the telephone an offer to adopt the child...
...dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin as their oracle and with the aid of Demon Rum keep him in their hotel penning his sweet lines and doping the races. After a hectic few days of this the mild Erwin becomes a man in his own right and, considerably enriched, returns to take his place as wearer...
...best advertisers, was "to hell with them," and he meant it. I never knew him to smooth over an advertiser even if he knew he was wrong. . . . One of the most interesting phases of Rounsevell's personality ... is the fact that during his lifetime he has adopted three generations of children. When he was nine years old he persuaded his mother to adopt a baby orphan girl, which he cared for and raised at sporadic intervals in his career. When the child grew up she married and became the mother of a baby girl which Rounsevell in turn also...
...studio, and the students are urged to watch him and, if they desire, to work with him. He is said to have aroused considerable interest, and has inspired a group of men to do their own work. This is the sort of plan that Harvard could and should adopt for the undergraduate who is interested in creative art, for at present the Fine Arts department offers only one course, Fine arts 1a, which is of any practical value to the artist...
Even if Harvard cannot follow Cranbrook's experiment, it should at least set up a studio for painters and sculptors; the interest that has been shown in the "laboratory' work in Fine Arts 1a should convince the department that the studio will be used. To adopt this plan and the others recommended in the preceding editorials would mean that Harvard could take care not only of the scholar, but of the collector and the creative artist as well...