Word: deborah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Anna joined the Major in St. Petersburg in 1843, bringing young Jimmie and Willie (aged 9 and 7) and Deborah, the Major's child by his first marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes...
...prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads correspondents. Excerpts from the contributions displayed genuine simplicity, natural beauty, instinctive truth. As intuitive a piece of insight into the female character as ever came from Willa Gather was the report of Deborah Whitaker on her trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event of her life. Mrs. Whitaker entered the ballroom, "closed our eyes and breathed a prayer: 'Please...
...Yale game, was president of Delta Upsilon. At 23, before he received his Harvard divinity degree, he took a Unitarian parish in Lincoln, Mass. Last year he went to Concord, N. H., became minister-at-large to New Hampshire Unitarian churches. Dana Greeley has a wife named Deborah, a daughter named Faith...
...books have been published by the Harvard University Press, it was announced yesterday. They are "Thomas Lodge and Other Elizabethans" by C. J. Sisson, Mark Eccles, and Deborah Jones, and "A Bibliography of Cuban Helles-Lettres" by J. D. M. Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, and M. I. Raphael...