Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beget quintuplets seems to Father Ovila Dionne a private and personal achievement whose profits properly belong to him. On the contrary, thinks Ontario's Liberal Government, it is a public achievement of Society, as represented by Dr. Allan Dafoe who delivered and reared them, the U. S. newspapers that sent a hot-water incubator* and saved their lives, the Northern Ontario businessmen who built the modern Dionne nursery heated against Northern Ontario's -30° winter weather...
Aristocrats among the 123,304 U. S. Roman Catholic nuns are those who belong to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Called "Mothers" and "Madames," they run many a swank day and boarding school, teach French and other polite subjects to good little Protestants as well as Catholic girls. Their order was founded in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat, who was canonized by her Church in 1925. To qualify as a Madame, a girl of respectable parentage and unblemished reputation must take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, study and teach for five or six years, then undergo...
Friends, there is only one course to pursue: boycott the non-squeakers until they're moved back to where they belong. Shall a more handful of scheming brain-workers hold all the rest of us at bay? Are we any more inured to squeaks than they are? No, this thing must be nipped in the bud before we find Housemasters stealing everyone's furniture for their own apartments! The Vagabond proposes to wave this dirty linen from every housetop in Cambridge until the overweening outrage is set aright and men can again study in Widener with some degree of dignity...
Manhattan's No. 1 eye doctor is owlish John Martin Wheeler, 55. In his 30-year career Dr. Wheeler has removed some 1,000 bad eyes from some 1,000 good patients. He pops cataracts out of eyeballs, puts popeyes back where they belong, patches eyelids, makes eyelashes out of eyebrows. His most famed patient but by no means his best paying was King Prajadhipok of Siam (see p. 24) who gave him something less than $25,000 for squeezing a cataract out of the royal left eye. Last week Dr. Wheeler went to his own Eye Institute...
...have just stabbed Matsutaro Shoriki, the unpatriotic publisher, in the neck!" he boasted. "I am a patriot. My name is Katsusuke Nagasaki. I am 28 years old and belong to the Warlike Gods Society...