Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HELEN WASKI...
...stalled Kagawa's co-operative enterprises, has almost completely halted sales of the many books from which he financed his work and his modest home life. Last Christmas U. S. Christians raised $1,000 as a gift to the myopic, soft-faced little Japanese. Last week Miss Helen Faville Topping, Dr. Kagawa's devoted American amanuensis, was circulating among his friends a poem, To Tears, which he wrote to voice his feelings on the Chinese war. Excerpt...
Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common - a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last...
Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with...
Detroit suffered a thoroughgoing scare, for closely associated with Helen Abney for three nights were 100 other young & lithe girls who taxi-danced for a living and a thousand men who danced with them. Few of the dancers dared feel safe against smallpox contagion. When schoolchildren, some had evaded the usually compulsory vaccination against this comparatively rare disease.* Practically none of the others knew that vaccination may provide protection for only five years. By means of newspapers and radio Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry F. Vaughan last week explained all this to Detroit's citizens and plenty...