Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore pointed out one inaccuracy in Mr. Minnigerode's article by telling the true story. The original article said : "And sometimes the General went away and got into trouble. He was always quarreling and vituperating and fighting . . . with Mr. Dickinson, whom he pronounced to be a worthless, drunken blackguard scoundrel, and finally killed, quite deliberately, on a May morning when the other's pistol stopped at half-cock...
General Jackson challenged Dickinson, who was a crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...
Princeton University (Princeton, N. J.) dedicated a new infirmary, laid the cornerstone of a $3,000,000 chapel, the latter with the confident words of Edward Dickinson Duffield, '92, President of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, that it would "always, serve to safeguard Princeton's sons spiritually and to send them out into the world with the proper spiritual concepts...
More Sex. So secret and hidden is nearly everything pertaining to sex that even the physician does not know what normal sex practices and conduct really are. Dr. Robert L. Dickinson of New York City asked the cooperation of the doctors in establishing criteria of sex habits...
...example, he pointed out that a recent survey of sex habits of over 2,000 women showed that two-thirds of them indulged in autoerotic practices-a condition contrary to the general idea. The same sex survey showed that 87% of all marriages are happy. Dr. Dickinson continued...