Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Harriet Winthrop McKim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop McKim of Tuxedo Park, to Augustus B. Field Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Field, of Manhattan. Both are direct descendants of Thomas Buchanan, 18th Century merchant, whose great landholdings in New York founded many a proud fortune...
...Evolution of Head Form and Face Form," will be the subject of Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology at the University, in his speech before the first open meeting of the year of the Harriet Newell Lowell Research Society of the University Medical School tonight, at 8 o'clock. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Dental School Building...
...South of pre-Civil War days. The days of great plantations, the old aristocracy with its cult of chivalry and hospitality, the caste system of master and slave, have furnished fascinating and rich material for American authors. Uncle Remus of Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe are among the immortal characters inspired by this period. Thomas Dixon, of contemporary fame, has drawn his material from the same source. But the Civil War destroyed the Old South of fable and romance and imposed a new order, both social and economic, upon the old. The South came...
...Tarbell, erstwhile Carrie Nation of petroleum, announced that she would vote for Coolidge. Almost immediately twelve ladies (Harriet Stanton Blatch, Rita Lydig, etc.) asked her by letter to recant and vote for LaFollette...
...Charles Edward Stowe, of Santa Barbara, who calls himself twin brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin because his mother, Harriet Beecher Stowe, produced him and the book at approximately the same time, sent to Coolidge Campaign Headquarters a quotation from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, famed Roman poet, which he applied to the President...