Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this particular moment a taxicab, as taxicab will, ran into another and sprained the lady occupant's ankle. Hence Doctor Hampton and Lawyer Stokes each got his first client and the doctor fell in love. She gave her name as Mary Jane Smith from Elizabeth, N. J., and as that was the identical name the three conspirators had picked at random for the wedding invitations the situation can be seen at a glance...
...awards of the Norton, Princeton, and Sheldon fellowships, the Perkins scholarships, and the Pasteur Medal and Elizabeth Wilder Prize were announced at University Hall yesterday...
...leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick of long-legged Lenglen, said loungers. She had used unworthy pressure to have Miss Ryan withdraw so that she, Lenglen, might go undefeated, remain a legend. To crown...
Borglum rushed to Greensboro, N.C., to meet the habeas corpus proceedings brought in his behalf. There he found that the tumult and the shouting were perceptibly dying. Mrs. Elizabeth Venable Mason, one of the contributors to the Memorial, had been going about saying to influential people things calculated to mollify their feelings. To the press she said...
Last week, in Manhattan, the Women's Symphony Orchestra of America filed papers of incorporation. The capital was named at $250,000; number of players, 60; conductor, Madame Elizabeth Kuyper, Dutch musician. A month ago, in London, the British Women's Symphony Orchestra gave a concert, played Handel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Weber with competency. Musical people who read of these events in the press began to ask questions about women conductors, women orchestra players...