Word: aurelia
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...Changing her scuffed, rubber-soled campus shoes for evening slippers, President Aurelia Henry Reinhardt of Mills College at Oakland, Calif, presided at a dinner celebrating two anniversaries, the 88th of the founding of Mills, one of the oldest colleges for women in the U. S., and the 21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband...
...case of California, for Governor Young was graduated in the class of 1892. Among other of California's celebrated sons and daughters: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; Authors Charles Norris and Jack London; Humorist Sam Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber of Commerce; President William Benson Storey of A. T. & S. F. Creed, late president of Pacific Gas & Electric...
...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...
...dear!' Aurelia would exclaim. 'I'm half dead with shopping!' Then, if it didn't happen to be one of the days for hair dressing, manicuring and facial beautifying, they would go to the movies and stay until after five. ... 'I do wish I could find time to take French or music or something...
...modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner for the Greeleys at Mr. Cooper's home. There a fellow guest asks Mrs. Greeley whether she prefers Bach to Stravinsky. Her coy retort...