Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiorello Henry LaGuardia has indeed had an explosive career. Born on Manhattan's Varick Street 51 years ago, he grew up at Army posts. His father, a bandmaster, died of embalmed beef at Tampa during the Spanish-American War. When he was 20, Fiorello got into the consular service...
Annie Sullivan was then 21, Helen Keller, 7. She found Helen a spoiled, sturdy little animal, apparently hopelessly limited and given to wild tantrums when crossed. Annie isolated herself with her hardly human charge, first disciplined her into docility, then won her affection. After the first weeks it was apparently...
Phi Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he...
In San Francisco lately a motherly Christian Science practitioner had an obscure hotel clerk arrested for threatening her life in an excess of affection. A judge dismissed the complaint on condition that the accused man leave town. One day last fortnight the man disappeared from a coastwise steamer, left identical...
The chief factor contributing to the reluctance of men to take high priced rooms is native economy. In addition, the advantages of "expensive suites" are little greater than those of more moderate rooms. Since the rooms themselves are certainly fairly even in affection with ten exceptions, a spread in reuis...