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...Everything (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Set unconvincingly at the turn of the century, this picture presents Hannah Bell (May Robson), a stubborn, avaricious, domineering old widow who is "the richest woman in the world." What Hannah Bell cannot buy are love and happiness. She saves money by living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone...
...again "mixt with sugar and water." The action of the college seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah Arrington, and their accomplices, that we owe these records of seventeenth century Freshmen, their experiments with liquor, and the college's attitude toward...
...work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose an opportunity to inculcate good old-fashioned morality, embodying principles of decency and respect for individual personality and clean-mindedness." Testified one of her former pupils...
Besides Mary Ball Washington, Eliza Ballou Garfield, Nancy Allison McKinley and Sarah Delano Roosevelt, two other women lived to see their sons elected President of the U. S.: Jane Knox Polk and Hannah Simpson Grant.-ED. Letter-Writer...
...Died. Hannah Taylor Shipley, 80, founder (with her late sisters. Elizabeth A. and Katherine M.) of the Shipley School for girls, near Philadelphia; of chronic myocarditis; in Atlantic City...