Word: emma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whee, whee", cried my little roommate leaping to his feet, the vigorous fellow, "Whee, whee." At which sudden debacle I ran to Aunt Emma's sole contribution to our happy home and brought him the smelling salts. It was in vain. He persisted; insisted; resisted. So lowering him gently into the bathtub I discovered his secret...
...School at Howard University would admit her, and Howard University is a Negro institution. Undaunted, the woman from Wisconsin entered Howard, studied with Negroes, received her diploma. In 1881 she was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Last week in Washington many an organization assembled to honor Emma M. Gillett's memory. Born in a log cabin in Wisconsin in 1852 she was, at the time of her death (January, 1927), Dean of the co-educational Washington College of Law, the only U. S. law school directed by women, founded in 1896 by Miss Gillett and Mrs. Ellen...
...Muir's first novel has something of the structural development of a fugue. Its main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life...
...engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...