Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, Dr. Harriet Babcock was perfecting such a gauge at the Manhattan State Hospital. Primarily she intended to grade the progressive mental deterioration of paretics. Converse result was to mark the clearing up of all befuddled minds. Vocabularies provided her with a clue...
Next most exciting thing to being addressed by the President of the U. S. was to have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark...
...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
...film shows a Harriet Breen who trades shrewdly in wheat and railroads, endeavors to outmanipulate a wheat-&-rail speculator who has ruined her husband. Like Hetty Green, she is the Richest Woman in the World, hates lawyers, has a son and daughter whom she treats severely. As Hetty Green might never have done, she stakes her fortune on her son's loyalty to her, gives him a railroad when she wins. To prove she is eccentric, she discharges an old maidservant, pretends to have stolen her savings, then makes her rich...
...veiled hints and circular letters sent out by a committee which advises but does not demand that certain books be removed from sale. This discreet method would indicate that perhaps the censors are aware of the force of public opinion on these questions. Nevertheless such comparatively innocuous books as "Harriet Hume" by Rebecca West and Michael Ossorgin's "Quiet Street" have been handled rather gingerly by some booksellers within the past year. Such dictatorial acts as the suppression of the numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell to Arms" will probably not be repeated...