Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston and observed frankly that coming out is "a racket, but a pleasant...
...learned paper read before the American Astronomical Society in a cosy Columbia University lecture hall, Meteorologist Edgar William Woolard of the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week that lowest annual temperatures ordinarily occur in the U. S. in the period from ten to 40 days after the winter solstice (Dec. 21 or 22, day when the sun is farthest south of the Equator). From Montana to Maine and as far south as Memphis and Macon, U. S. inhabitants could well believe him. In two waves real winter cold rolled down on them from Alaska and the Canadian Northwest...
...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
Last week the periwigged British bar viewed with interest the unprecedented decision reached in the Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v. Hall & Pickles. For her fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
Wanted for alleged misrepresentation of imported goods by the Cambridge police, "Peter Geer," a legitimate cloth salesman of good Cambridge family, was picked up in Claverly Hall for trespassing Friday afternoon by Colonel Charles Apted, Head of the University Police...