Word: benefactresses
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...sundial-terrace form was suggested by Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, benefactress of the Governor Dudley Memorial...
...Benefactress. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Gertrude Minor was arrested for sponsoring teen-age drinking parties, protested that she only "wanted to keep the kids off the streets...
...know him but pitied him for being "handicapped" and wanted to help him in "his unequal struggle for existence." The twelve-year-old son of the Lindbergh kidnapper was last in the public eye in 1940, when he got $15,000 in Rochester, N.Y. for accident injuries. His benefactress also left $3,000 "for the care and protection of cats...
Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square...
...Lupino, proving again that she ranks among the screen's top-flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...