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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper...
...there it moved to its present location in Quincy Square, opposite the Union, where the concrete garage was built in 1906. In these pioneer days Ramblers and Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars...
...founder of the House of Rothschild was 'Mayer Amschel, son of Amschel Moses Bauer. He was a dealer in coins, curios and jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking...
...healthy 9 ½lb. boy. Physicians thought that Juanita was probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty. That comes earliest in hot climates, latest in cold, with ages rang ing from 9 or 10 in some parts of South America to 17 or 18 in Lapland. A survey some years ago indicated that the average age of puberty in the U. S. was 13. Authorities believe that it is now going...
...FROM the earliest plays of O'Neill there has been a recurrent struggle to find some essence in man and his universe beyond its tragic appearance: that naturalistic appearance which is the core of "The Moon in the Caribees" and "Desire Under the Eims." We may call it a cosmic yearning for a God of eternal meaning, but this philosophical and poetic urge has seemed always to be only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother...