Word: born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Henry was born in the same State as her husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals...
...Baroness Strabolgi, Commander Kenworthy's mother, was born Elizabeth Florence Cooper of San Francisco, Cal. For some weeks past there had been words between Baroness Strabolgi and Landlady Rosa Hanner. Lady Strabolgi wished to have coal fires in her apartment, had the gas logs ripped out in order to install grates...
Pressed for an explanation, she said frostily, "I was born in California and brought home to Scotland at the age of two. My early life was spent in Scotland, where people are very kind...
...youngest of big-university presidents was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mother who was graduated at Mt. Holyoke and a father who is now President of Berea College (Kentucky). Education has be come a Hutchins family tradition. The Youngest President's brother, Francis, 26, is head of Yale-in-China; another brother, William, teaches at the Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn...
...married Miss Maude Phelps McVeigh, later an able sculpture student who won a prize in her second year at the Yale School of Fine Arts. To the University of Chicago will go a "first lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth" Not only must she be the first lady...