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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliza, Ill., bills have been posted announcing the public auction of the entire town, which comprises general store, drug store, barber shop, pool rooms, community building, grammar school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, New York's Governor's wife L.H.D. Eliza Kellas, Emma Willard School principal LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...girls' schools are the intellectually alive Brearley's; aristocratic, simple Miss Chapin's, lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Eliza has made her precarious way across the ice, strewing her wake with the pillows that gave her the necessary embonpoint. The buzz-saw has ceased to hack at the disheveled hair of the fainted heroine, and the villain, with a furious gesture, has gone to meet his Maker. Gone are the thrillers and the tragedies and mysteries that held audiences tense for every moment of their diurnal span. Gone indeed, but the tradition seems to linger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LO, THE BRONTOSAUSUS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...would want to kill Judge Tillman Davis Johnson? Mrs. Eliza Simmons, widow, was one person. "I'll show you how to get justice!" was what she had screamed as she shot. At her home, Widow Simmons produced a rambling document penned by her, in which she declared war on the Utah Copper Co., for whom her husband had been a brakeman until his accidental death in 1910, and on "hardboiled" Judge Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Utah Episode | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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