Word: emma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, the first thing he did was to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, the granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood. The next was to publish the journal of his voyage. This made him recognised as a brilliant and important naturalist; he and the wife were invited to distinguished dinner parties which annoyed Charles Darwin. He soon stopped going to them and spent the next four years studying species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
...horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...
...William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will be known at Leyden simply as "Mejuffrouw Van Buren." Netherlands recalled that among the minor titles of their queen is "Countess Van Buren...
...Emma Downes the mother, the "good woman," passing at last from her tribulations, marries a Congressman and goes to her grave trailing ironic clouds of Y.M.C.A. glory. The book is named for her and dedicated? to all of her ilk in U. S., "which has more than its share of them.'' It is she that is most to blame for the book's failure. Mr. Bromfield has undoubtedly met the type but he has never, apparently, been sufficiently interested in an Emma Downes to draw of her more than an obvious, uninspired caricature...