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...French-born Marie Leonce Wall read H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage for the Anglicized version...
Adoption Announced, By Mrs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller, oilman, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick, farm machinery manufacturer, widow of the late Major Elisha D. Hubbard, gentleman farmer; of a girl, 4, who will presumably one day share the double-barreled fortune of her foster forebears...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
Edward S. Harkness National Scholarships to Ward S. Fowler 1M., Eldora, Iowa; and Carl C. Gardner, Jr. 1M., Columbia, Tennessee; Daniel Fiske Jones Scholarship to William F. Loomis 1M., Cambridge...
...every Harvard man it is expected that he be able to write and spell, if not according to Fowler, at least as suits an educated individual. Because only a small, specially-talented group pursue the art of composition after their first year in college, full and competent instruction in writing is an important part of Freshman education. Not the elusive trails of creative writing, but the technique of spelling, punctuating, and the coherent expression of ideas must be emphasized for the majority...