Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, the tall Persian cat of one Mrs. Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...foppish little Marquis, who last year laid bare with nauseating crudeness the sordid story&$134; of how he won and lost Anna Gould, is non est at Paris and consequently nobody paid much attention to his vaporing...
Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
...career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband was nearly snared by a stenographer. Many expensive actors were wasted on all this-Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, Shirley Mason and Ian Keith-and a lot of terrible subtitles, such as: "You are my wife and I know you are clean to the core." Up the Ladder. One more atrocity is perpetrated. It is the old story of the sacrificing wife who makes her husband famous only...
Married. Theodore M. Edison, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison, to Miss Anna M. Osterhout, daughter of Prof. Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, Professor of Botany at Harvard University; in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard...