Word: agog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prodigious children, and one night Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. gave a party for them. A onetime prodigy who had used a typewriter at 3, written a poem and made a public speech at 4, Miss Stoner invited such characters as William James Sidis, who at n set Harvard agog, and Nathalia Crane, who at 9 published poems. The party's chief exhibit was Ellen Elizabeth Benson, the plump young daughter of a Texas newspaper couple. When she was 8, Ellen Elizabeth Benson's mind had been rated as equal to that of a "superior adult." Six months later her elders...
Sleazy Bucharest, the "Paris of the Balkans,"* and all sprawling Rumania were agog. After three years in eclipse, the great political Dynasty of Bratianu-the makers of Rumania-were again ascendant last week over Rumania's Royal House of Hohenzollern. Buck-toothed King Carol, who has tried to play the Dictator, was forced to accept a new Cabinet chosen not by himself, as his National Peasant Party Cabinets have been, but by the National Liberal Party of the Dynasty of Bratianu...
...Henry Street. She is the National Federation of Settlements' unemployment chairman. She has studied unemployment insurance (the Dole) in England and found it good. She would institute cash relief in place of U. S. charity commissaries. She has presented such views before Congressional committees. Henry Street folk were agog last week to behold the objets d'art which Miss Hall brought with her, from China, Mexico and elsewhere, as well as sculptures and woodcarvings of her own. Newshawks came in. To one foolish question...
...Medical Research and English dean of his profession, reached Manhattan. He was escorted first to Baltimore, to earn a $1,000 stipend for delivering three memorial lectures, then to Rahway. N. J. to salute the opening of Merck & Co. Inc.'s new chemical research laboratory. Drug men were agog to see and hear...
Most interested in Boots was Mr. Hill, already chairman of its two big rivals (Timothy Whites and Taylors) and of Beecham Pills, Ltd. and Veno Drug Co., a manufacturing concern. He agreed to form a syndicate to buy the Boots stock for $25,000,000. London was agog with tales of a gigantic combine and happy over the prospects of having so big a concern come home to roost, laying its dividends on British soil. The U. S., of course, was pleased in the unique achievement of making a $15,000,000 profit out of a foreign investment. And then...