Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronchial asthma; in Chicago. While she was a young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food...
Mentally groomed by Coach Farrell's psychology of optimism and determination, every prospective Harvard point winner will enter the brilliant I. C. 4A track competition at the 258th Field Artillery in New York next Saturday in the best of the shape physically and mentally, and with the firm conviction that chances for a Crimson victory are just as bright as those of Cornell, N. Y. U., or Pennsylvania...
...more unfortunate is this apparent effort to back it up with an aggressive display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last Manchurian offensive...
...Schlesinger & Son are both dead. The Manhattan firm of A. Schlesinger & Sons is owned by South Africa's Isidore W. and his New York brother Max A. It operates exclusively as U. S. financial agent of the Schlesinger interests. Both Schlesingers like to be called by their initials. Brother M. A., 48, is short, stocky, black-haired, sits in an office in an old building near Times Square. Brother I. W., 58, is short, stocky, grey-haired, dashes about South Africa and Europe in pursuit of more business. Neither brother, enriched by films, ever had a photograph taken...
Birthdays. Louis Maurer, last surviving artist of the staff of Currier & Ives, famed print firm, 100; Elihu Root, 87; Charles Michael Schwab...