Word: howe
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...Quincy Howe is a cultured, loquacious, birdlike Bostonian with a famous father (Pulitzer Prize Biographer Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe), a shrewd editorial sense, a mercurial mind. For twelve years he applied it to foreign affairs for The Living Age; for the last five it has glided around the offices of Simon & Schuster. For years Editor Howe was the No. 1 sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked...
Scottish-born Dorothy lona Campbell Hurd Howe, 57-year-old wife of a Princeton, N. J. banker, is the only woman who ever won the world's four major female golf championships: Scottish, British, Canadian, U. S. Two years ago, when twice-married Mrs. Howe joined the U. S. Women's Senior Golf Association, she ran away with the national Senior championship too. Last year Mrs. Howe successfully staved off all challengers...
Last week, when 60 U. S. matrons and spinsters gathered at New York's Westchester Country Club for their 17th annual tournament, it looked as if Mrs. Howe would make it three in a row. But in spite of her 800 golf prizes, Mrs. Howe failed to keep her head down, flubbed three successive shots on the seventh hole, wound up with a first-round 87, two strokes behind Beatrice Stevens Hammer Stevens of Greenwich, Conn...
Next day, while Mrs. Howe scored a matronly 88, young Mrs. Stevens, twice-married and a 51-year-old grandmother, chalked up 83 to win the tournament by seven strokes. Champion Stevens had won the Senior championship once before, but the name that appears most often on the big silver cup Mrs. Stevens took home is that of Mrs. Leila Du Bois, four times champion and five times runner-up since...
Ratner stated that an article written by Justice Homes in 1888 for "Youth's Companion' would be published for the first time in this year's law book. Mark Howe of the Buffalo University Law School discovered it and presented it as a gift to Dean Landis. The article gives Holmes's estimation of the characteristics necessary for success...