Word: delia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Mrs. Akeley was Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wis. She accompanied Mr. Akeley to Africa in 1905, three years after their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went...
TALK - Emanie N. Sachs - Harper ($2.00). A lazily-written history of a Kentucky anachronism. Delia Morehouse was "different" from her generation (circa 1890) to the extent that she ran a bookstore-for financial reasons-when it was thought advanced of women to keep their own checkbooks. Falling in love with Page Reeves made it necessary for her to give up being herself and learn to cook. As a meticulous housekeeper, if not as a wife, Delia was a success, but the effort cost her great growing pains. Accordingly Page's cup of political and social success had a sediment...
...Delia nostra libert?...
...Delia nostra liberta. The following is a free translation...
...Eshington, Northumberland, a new non-stop dancing record was established by Victor Hindmarch, who kept at it for 25 hours. His partner, Miss Delia Dunn retired af-ter 22 hours and 21 minutes, but the untiring Hindmarch continued with a woman spectator...