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...once been a nurse, that she too had been graduated from the Bellevue Nurses Training School. An old book was found, full of the names of nurses who had received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly, "Cora Carpenter? I don't remember any Cora Carpenter, but there...
Like most children of the professional play world, to whom five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes...
...that injustice, sooner or later, works in compensation against its perpetrator and when this happens may Heaven spare those you love." It was as if the widow of Charles Dickens were pleading for his son. What could M. Poincaré answer? Next day Mme. Alphonse Daudet opened a long, crisp envelope, read the Premier's reply: "Your letter, Madame, has profoundly moved me, but awakens in me no remorse. . . . Need I remind you that at the request of your son's friends I intervened at the time of Phillipe's death so that his body might...
Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, as Chicago. So said the General at the Hotel La Salle last week, guest of the Military Intelligence and Reserve Officers associations. Stiff-jawed, military as a court-martial, Major General Summerall, warmly welcomed, rose, spoke crisp, West-Pointed sentences...