Word: laura
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bureau of International Research has been established at Harvard and Radcliffe, through a large gift from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, it has just been announced. It is planned that the Rockefeller fund be used, during a period of five years, to develop research of an international character and of an advanced nature, such as might not otherwise be undertaken...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...Miss Laura Harlan, daughter of the late Justice John Marshall Harlan of the Supreme Court, Social Secretary to the White House, will retire on August 15, it was announced. Reason: Economy. (She has received a salary of $4,000 or $5,000 a year.) Her duties will be partly taken over by Mrs. Coolidge's private secretary, Miss Mary Randolph of Virginia, and partly by the State Department under the supervision of Third Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright; Charles Lee Cooke having direct charge of sending all official invitations...
...Teaser. The arrival of the country cousin (this one from Menominee, Mich.) and her methods of winning the hard hearts of her city relatives are recognized stock for cinema soup. This portion is seasoned sensibly with novelty and makes a fair dish of entertainment. The extraordinarily blonde Laura La Plante occupies herself genially enough in the title part...
...Look at Drums by Jim Boyd and The Carolinian by R. Sabatini and two little sketchbooks, Isles of Eden and A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson of Baltimore, a lady whom I don't know...