Word: carr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing a prime archeological find, he saw what he thought might be the prize of the Hudson Valley region. Some items...
...story is taken from my play, A La Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing...
Work Horse. New Orleans proved less seductive than New Haven. Judah got a job with a notary, studied law in his spare time. Admitted to the bar, he promptly married Natalie St. Martin, a Creole girl with "the voice of a prima donna." She liked parties in the Vieux Carré. Judah preferred to work like a horse. When Natalie left him to live in Paris, he worked harder than ever...
...foreign correspondent, covering the A.E.F. in 1918, he outwitted military censors skillfully. Once he sent a long, inane, seemingly pointless dispatch containing, for no apparent reason, the names and home addresses of several Irish New Yorkers. Astounded at first, the Times's great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda finally realized James must be trying to say something. He sent reporters to the addresses. Soon he learned that all the men named were members of New York's great "Fighting Sixty-Ninth." Result: a Times scoop on the news that the Fighting Sixty-Ninth was going into action...
Typical of what Jaakko Mikkola has had to expect this winter was the announcement a day before the meet that Fred Carr, the College's best sprinter was to enter the Army today. Carr didn't compete, of course, Joe Moore and Eddis Smith placed second and third in the 100, though, and Paul Laskin garnered a second...