Word: kate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Kate Macready Dickens Perugini, 89, last surviving daughter of Charles Dickens, known in her own right for her paintings of children; in London. She was married twice, first to Charles Alston Collins, brother of Novelist William Wilkie Collins; second to Painter Carlo Perugini of Italy. Aged 10, Kate Dickens taught her father a polka to dance with her at the birthday party of her brother Charles Dickens Jr. Author Dickens, many years after, specially insisted that the polka lessons ("my fondest memories") be included in his biography by John Forster...
...resigning and had been elected Associate Principal Emeritus by the Board of Trustees who wish to consult her on educational policy. Three of the old regime teachers will not go with the school to its new quarters: Miss Laura V. Tanner, of the English Department, and History Teachers Kate B. Reynolds and Theodora Bartlett. Oldtimers who will not depart, and whom alumnae classify variously as "meanies" and "peaches," are the Misses Emily Crawford (Latin), Edith Marsden (Geography), Emily Bennett (English), Elizabeth Allen (Mathematics), Josie Herbert (English), Fedora Edgar and Alice C. Hubbard (Art), Annie M. (Latin) and Mary L. (Literature...
Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...
Female bandits like Two-Gun Tittle and Kangaroo Kate conduct a reign of terror in Greenwich Village whilst a more charming female looks into the murder of her revivalist uncle...
...women friends know, "Kate" loves it all so! She is exuberant, kinetic, lovely. Of a morning she canters, while her bull (not poodle) scampers behind...