Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...
...however sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...over a year, the U.S. fur industry has speculated about a strange new fur, a lustrous platinum mink with a soft blue overtone. Many a furrier was not certain whether it was a worthless freak or a Comstock lode for U.S. fur breeders...
...Kitchener Jordan, Radcliffe's fourth president, will be inaugurated at Sanders Theatre on Monday afternoon, November 22, at 4 o'clock. The ceremonies will feature an inaugural procession by Harvard instructors teaching at Radcliffe, an address by President Conant, and a speech by Mrs. Wallace Notestein, the former Ada Comstock, who retired on September 1, after serving as Radcliffe's president for 20 years...
...will succeed Miss Ada L. Comstock, who announced her retirement for September 1 when she married Professor Wallace Notestein of Yale early this summer...