Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decorous 1840's when the sparkling Mr. Atkinson was compelling the hot-house plants of London's selectest society to swoon on sofas every evening and releasing for literature the troubled unconscious of Harriet Martinean, the myth was current that Hypnosis called for a handsome, muscular Personality with electric eyes; a veritable storage battery of animal magnetism. After the Radio experiments of the other night in Boston, Personality dwindles to condensite. If the talking machine companies should see the point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis...
...gospel of the sophisticates took occasion to criticize the structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory remarks about his work. At any rate he believes that the New Yorker should pay him $500,000 for the slander to his professional name...
...Just back of them [some bronzes], is the delicious "Humoresque" by Harriet Frishmuth, N. A. This should never be overlooked. Miss Frishmuth, ranking in the first rank of American women sculptors, is widely represented in the collection, and also is in Atlanta for the exhibition. Nine or ten examples of her work, all exquisite in idea and perfect in execution, are shown...
Married. Maurice G. ("Red") Robinson, eloquent Wabash College orator on "The Eleventh Commandment" (TIME, May 17); to Harriet Harding...
...sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...