Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Money in Thy Purse . . ." In Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Charwoman Mary Cowan spotted an ad for old books, packed off some first editions of Shakespeare from the Memorial Theater where she worked...
...Redskins, Bowery Bums, Shamrocks, Commanches, Clashers, Bucks, Aggies, Forty Thieves, Rapiers, Red Devils, Lisbons, Champs, Trojans, Coriettes, Tiny Tims, Dragons, Jackson Knights, Vladecks, Bowery Boys, Braves, Garfield Boys, Navy Street Boys, Sand Street Boys, Red Hook Boys, Jolly Stompers, Redskin Roamers, Coney Island Boys, Beavers, Bishops, South Brooklyn Boys, Avon Dukes, Chancellors, Penguins, Robins, Nits...
...alumnus of Avon Old Farms, class of '36, I ... resent your calling Avon "a fancy prep school for rich kids"; it was nothing of the sort. . . . Avon was a school especially designed to develop individual tendencies in every boy who went there. By the system of "Community Service" at the farm, stables, in the woods, in the garage, in the power house, in student government, etc., each student was taught something practical, along with studies and sports. The school was MEANT to be entirely different from Taft, Choate, Kent and all the rest, which tended to turn out "types...
...perhaps true that Mrs. Riddle was very dogmatic in many of her views; it is equally true that your magazine takes a most dogmatic attitude, unjustified and childish, in presenting the history and present status of Avon Old Farms...
...summer of 1925 I offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...