Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rosy and his features-especially his nose-are sharp. This is the man who for years was editor of The St. Nicholas League, who has written dozens of books for grown-ups and children, whose first published volume was of poems, in collaboration with his great friend, William Allen White, and called Rhymes by Two Friends...
...many ways, those early collaborators, William Allen White and Al- bert Bigelow Paine, are much alike-in their humor, their real sentiment, their kindliness, their fearlessness. They are of a tradition that persists, in spite of changing habits of mind...
Richard Day Allen, director of research and guidance for the public schools of Providence, who has taught for several years in the University Summer School, has been appointed lecturer on vocational guidance in the Graduate School of Education...
...weekend on the Mayflower found Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge entertaining Secretary of Agriculture Gore, Eugene Meyer Jr. of the War Finance Corporation and four editors and their wives: William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, G. Logan Payne of the Washington Times, George Harvey of the Washington Post and David Lawrence of the Consolidated Press. The amusements, besides the cruise on the Potomac, consisted of a cinema show, concerts by the Navy Band, conversation...
Died. Robert Allen ("Jack") Wakefield, member of the St. Louis National League Baseball club; in Memphis, suicide by shooting. He had quarreled with his fiancee, had received a disheartening letter from the management of the St. Louis Club, had become morose...