Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Allen White...
Crawford Allen, Mississippi Negro, lay sick abed in his shanty just across the Louisiana line. It was night and his wife Anna slept deeply beside him. Nearby slept his three pickaninnies, Teelie, Lewis, Myra. None of the Aliens had any clothes on; it was August...
Each month the selecting committee, composed of Henry Seidel Canby. Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White selects that book which in its opinion is from all angles the best of those published, and most representative of the proper trend in modern literature. This book is then sent to each of the 40,000 subscribers to the club...
...Towner, daughter of Gov. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Lester B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish." This statement is incorrect as I happen to have been present at the marriage of Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the first Civic Governor of Porto Rico, to Captain George Logan, U. S. N. This marriage took place at the Executive Mansion...
...Allen has brought back with him a large collection of specimens of all sorts. He has a tremendous number of small animals and birds of various shapes and colors. One of his most interesting specimens is a skin of a pangolin a very odd variety of ant eater. It is a toothless beast which lives on ants and similar insects, devouring them with its long tongue. Some of them grow to six feet in length. There is also a small variety. The animals shape strongly resembles a rather distorted and enlarged cigar which has grown a head and legs...