Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was "the only person in existence who had seen Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last...
Forty-four per cent of the senior class will receive honors and four of them will graduate summa cum laude. Those getting the highest honor that Radcliffe can confer are Margaret Stuart Bryan of Cambridge; Nancy Harriet Goldring of New York City; Laura Jane Klein of South Orange; and Catherine Lucretia Rubino of Port Chester, New York...
...take a prelaw course at Los Angeles City College but soon drifted into radio acting, and remembers the late '305 as the beginning of "the wonderful decade for radio." He utilized his brash New York accent to get comedy roles with Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Al Jolson, Ozzie & Harriet Nelson. By 1940 he was doing 22 shows a week, a mark he broke only during the war. As a master sergeant in the Armed Services Radio, he handled 120 shows at once and found time, during a furlough, to marry Cathy Lewis (a mutual friend had thought...
Housing problems in Tokyo are probably as bad as they are anywhere. When Bureau Secretary Harriet Wong was transferred from Hong Kong, she looked for a house for months, was unable to find one until Advertising Salesman Harold Hirata built an extra house on his land and rented it to her. Correspondent Dwight Martin rented his extra bedroom to Colin MacCulloch, Pacific circulation manager. Martin jokingly told the cook that MacCulloch was to have only two eggs for breakfast. Going beyond the call of duty, the cook initiated a series of regular reports on what and how much MacCulloch...
...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...