Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This daughter is Ailsa, now aged 25. She was a small girl when her father found it necessary to divorce her young and beautiful Irish mother (Nora McMullen) in 1910-12. The parents' parting was effected with becoming dignity, and it was arranged that Ailsa and her younger brother...
But before General Wood reached the Philippines, and more venomously after he got there, the old talk against him echoed. The General has always had to face criticism from Army people because he is a great civilian, and from civilians because he is a great soldier. But the story of...
General Arthur Currie, now President of McGill University, Montreal, arose and presented to Lady Byng, on behalf of the Canadian Corps, a portrait of Baron Byng by the Canadian artist, Major Forberry. Turning to his old commander, whom he succeeded in 1917, General Currie continued: "And will you, sir, in...
Not until he was 80 did his fatal illness manifest itself?an affection of the heart. That was complicated by other troubles, which required an operation last summer. During the fall he lost the use of his legs, two weeks ago his condition became worse, and in the last few...
The donor of this lasting gift is John William Sterling, a Yale graduate of '64. Six million of the Sterling legacy of $15,000,000 will go to the erection of the library. John Sterling, who died in 1918, was one of New York's most prominent lawyers. His gift...