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...Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned his daughter's picture to the wall...
...glorious tribute was accorded the chief executive upon his return from teeming southern waters to official duties yesterday. Led by a reception committee composed of Speaker Rainey and Representatives Snell, Englebright, Byrns and Greenwood the members of the Democratic party--loyal men and true--joined with members of the opposition to extend the glad hand of welcome to their President. A delegation boarded the train to assure him of their joy at his safe return, of their continued support and of their allegiance to the principles for which he stood. The occasion was further enhanced by the presence...
...Frank Greenwood Jewett, Jr. '36 of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has won the Varsity wrestling competition and today becomes second assistant manager while Raymond Sobel '37 of Poughkeepsie, New York has won the competition for Freshman wrestling manager. Jewett will become Varsity manager when a senior...
Dean J. Ben Robinson of the University of Maryland Dental School, which has guarded Washington's dentures since 1875 and which sent them to Chicago last week, says that the teeth were probably used from 1792 until 1798. They were fashioned from ivory and gold by Dr. John Greenwood of New York who had considerable correspondence with the toothless President about them. Dr. Greenwood advised rubbing the ivories with a cedar stick or chalk if they got too dark from port wine. If they got light, he said, soak them in broth, liquor or porter...
...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...