Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the private audience that formerly attended Professor Baker's presentations. The public and the press are excluded from the meeting. The committee in charge of arranging the plans for Monday night's dinner is composed of E. T. Goodnow '17, chairman, J. C. Monroe, treasurer, Elizabeth W. Monroe, secretary, E. A. Whitney '17, J. W. D. Seymour '17, T. P. Robinson, Alice H. Spalding, and Dorothy Sands...
...Mother Goose is not an imaginary personage. She actually lived in Boston in the 17th Century. Born Elizabeth Foster, she married one Isaac Vergoose (or Goose), a Boston widower "with eight or ten children," becoming Mother Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs...
Married. Rupert Hughes, 52, famed novelist, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson Dial, cinema actress; in Los Angeles...
Engaged. Roger Wethered, famed British amateur golfer, to Miss Elizabeth Bentinck, daughter of Lord...
Died. Daniel K. Lester, 86, engineer on the Monitor in its famed battle with the Merrimac in 1862; in Elizabeth, N. J., of pneumonia...