Word: laura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...
...Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News had 27 color pages and some of the world's most brilliant whiskey advertising...
Married. Charles Saxon Farley Smith, son of South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith; and Laura M. Douglas, of Washington; by Rev. Zë Barney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate; in Washington...
...letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough of journalism to be sure it was not his career. Returning to the U. S. he wrote for a left-wing literary magazine called The Liberator, had himself psychoanalyzed, set up a Greenwich Village establishment with a gentle, observant girl named Laura, lived in an experimental colony in New Jersey...
...Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead of her old record, came in second in a Lockheed Orion...