Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities? The distaff side seems never to have been illustrious twice running, possibly for the reason that most women acquire fame by being either too "good...
...this particular moment a taxicab, as taxicab will, ran into another and sprained the lady occupant's ankle. Hence Doctor Hampton and Lawyer Stokes each got his first client and the doctor fell in love. She gave her name as Mary Jane Smith from Elizabeth, N. J., and as that was the identical name the three conspirators had picked at random for the wedding invitations the situation can be seen at a glance...
...would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College...
During a recent stay in Boston Walter Hampden came out to Cambridge, and was surprised to find here pictures of himself which he did not remember had ever been taken. Mr. Hersey in searching for a picture of Jane Cowl, found 300 to choose from...
...Miss Jane Cowl, I understand, has praised 'Desire Under the Elms.' She declares it to be a great play, and that it teaches a great moral lesson. You know the plot, I suppose. That plot is typical--all too typical of the sort of thing that is being exploited in New York. Producers insist on neurotic plays, plays that means something. The public or a very definite part of it, supports them...