Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lloyd Wilson of San Francisco, publicity man for the Y.M.C.A., made out his income tax for 1936, he wondered how much to deduct for his baby daughter, Helen. Had she been born in January of that year he would have deducted the full $400 allowance for a dependent. But she had been born in August. That certainly entitled him to deduct five-twelfths...
...living, at least since her moment of "quickening" as a three-month-old embryo, in February 1936. Father Wilson allowed himself a deduction of eleven-twelfths of $400. The Bureau of Internal Revenue came back at him for $6.18 tax deficiency on that return, allowing him exemption for Baby Helen only after her birth...
...Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already...
...Helen Kieran Reilly, who writes good murder mysteries (McKee of Centre Street, Man with the Painted Head...
Opening at the Shubert this evening is a play which needs no introduction; in it is a great American actress in her greatest role, namely, Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina." The production came to Boston last season, ran endlessly in New York and points West, and has established itself as a play all lovers of the theatre should consider it their bounden duty to attend...