Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the exception of "Documentary Adventures in Old New York," there is no prose which can properly be termed interesting; certainly none worthy of being laid away in the cedar chest of memory...
They took Hubert Rampley out and flogged him. They did not think he should keep company with Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Skidmore, who had not yet secured her divorce. The floggers, sentenced to seven months in jail, were five, deacons all of the Atkins Avenue Baptist Church, Cedar Grove...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve...
...University Hospital at Iowa City, Iowa, recently came a woman suffering from a disease so extraordinary that it appalled the physicians, surgeons, who attended her. She, a certain Mrs. Mary McCormick from Cedar Rapids, had for six years suffered from a form of neuritis. She had journeyed from specialist to specialist without avail. When she entered the hospital, she regarded her death as a matter of weeks. Her originally large body (223 Ibs.) ossified, shrunk to almost nothing (40 Ibs.), the withered flesh hardened, taking on a stony texture; her jaws set, it became impossible for her to eat. Last...
This gentleman, so decoratively inclined, so exotically opinioned, so clever in a wispish sort of way, was born in Cedar Rapids, Ia., was graduated from the University of Chicago, has a brother who is a prominent Middle Western banker. Van Vechten started life as a musical critic. He has also been a dramatic critic. Perhaps he would now like to be known as a critic of life?or perhaps that is a bit too serious for him. Perhaps he will tell you that life to him is merely a grotesque and occasionally beautiful picture at which he likes to look...