Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry were married in January, 1899, in the Henry house at Monterey, Calif., by Father Ramon Mestrec, a Roman Catholic missionary priest with a dispensation permitting him to perform a civil wedding ceremony for non-Catholics...
...three generations of it in one family are noteworthy. A white-haired lady who died suddenly last week at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., aged 83, was the only daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston man by whose eloquence and persistence the Abolition movement attained national proportions before the Civil War. Today her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, is editor of the Nation, liberal weekly...
Married. Countess Henri de Sincay, onetime Marie Louise Logan of New York, granddaughter of Civil War hero Major General John A. Logan; to Major General Walter Joseph Maxwell Scott, D. S. 0., great grandson of Sir Walter Scott; in Paris...
...with a single blow. The sight of her quiet body seemed to penetrate at last into his maddened brain. Throwing away his rifle he plunged again into the woods, wandered aimlessly for two days, was hunted down and shot dead by efficient agents of the famed Spanish Guardia Civil...
...Civil War continued War Lord Feng was driven from Peking and retired to his present famed war base at Kalgan, an impregnable stronghold 100 miles north of Peking. There Mr. and Mrs. Feng (she a onetime Y. W. C. A. worker), their several scampering children and a Swiss governess were "at home," until the restive Christian War Lord moved down into central China for the campaign now victoriously completed...