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Word: ferrin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hostile Valley," Mr. Williams turns his facile hand to a tale of country folk in an isolated valley. His plot concerns the effect of one personality in disrupting an otherwise peaceful community and of the love of Jenny Pierce for Will Ferrin...

Author: By H. R. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

...disrupting element is Huldy ferrin, a "hussy" according to Marm Pierce, whom will Ferrin has found on one of his trips to the city. It is to be regretted that Mr. Williams did not lay more emphasis on his delineation of Huldy, for the brief strokes with which he has painted her arouse great interest and are executed with an apparently unconscious brilliancy. The reader gets a brief glance at a woman with sleepy eyes who would "rather be wanted than needed". Who "was vicious, beyond doubt; yet--there were not the marks of vice upon her, but rather...

Author: By H. R. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

...Minneapolis, A. K. Johnson sued Mrs. Vera L. Ferrin for $65,000, alleging that she was responsible for an automobile crash which left him with an inferiority complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Brokers | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...present were two still able women doctors-Ellen Alfleda Wallace, 77, and Mary Shepherd Danforth, 80, both of Manchester, N. H. Nodding to them venerably were Drs. George W. Gale, 93, of Saugus, Mass., Chester M. Ferrin, 93, of Burlington, Vt., and oldest of them all, probably the oldest medical graduate in the U. S., almost certainly the oldest practitioner, certainly the Medical Centre's cornerstone layer, Merritt Henry Eddy, 97, of Middlebury, Vt. The noise of the police motorcycles and sirens which accompanied the old doctors through Boston, the playing of the Navy Band before the Massachusetts State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New England Party | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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