Word: astor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
...Manhattan from Riverside, Conn., came last week Dr. W. E. Dentinger to speak, at a meeting of the National Life Conservation Society at the Hotel Astor, on "Musico-therapy." Just the thing, he said, for hysteria. Ladies in the audience were asked to close their eyes, relax, while a pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals...
...Nodded approval when the Speaker rebuked Mr. David Kirkwood, fire-eating Clydesider, when he shouted angrily across the floor at Lady Astor while she was advocating protective medical tests for women industrial workers...
...Lady Astor: "It seems to me that Miss Pankhurst's place is in the House of Commons. I feel that neither she nor the country should have any rest until she is there. I have only come to pay my humble tribute to her. For my part, I would gladly get out of the House to give Miss Pankhurst my place...
...tried to give to those who wanted me to do something. If you want me there and you think I can help make it easier for women and men, especially for the young, I will go there if I am sent there. But, touched as I am by Lady Astor's offer to give me her seat, I must decline, because if I go to Parliament I must win my seat...