Word: linne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion gave excuse for a tremendous social stir. A bustling series of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and balls was organized. Chief organizer was grey-haired but vivacious Mrs. Lucy Blair Linn, cousin of Col. McCormick, wife of a Chicago stockbroker. To facilitate conversation, she sent around Spanish-English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...
Century ago there were in the U. S. ten church members for every 75 persons. Now there are ten for every 25. (Total number of communicants: 50,037,245.) Dr. George Linn Kieffer, statistical secretary of the United Lutheran Church, declared in the Christian Herald: " the churches are losing ground, the reason and the remedy can be found in part in an analysis of the message they are proclaiming to the world. An age of doubt and question, of depression and lawlessness demands from the pulpits of the land a clear ringing statement?'We should fear and love...
Married. Cyrus McCormick III, vice president of International Harvester Co. of Chicago, divorced last month by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick (TIME, Feb. 16); and Mrs. Florence Sittenham Davey, 38, Manhattan sculptress, pupil of Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, onetime wife of former Instructor Randall Davey of the Chicago Art Institute (Mr. McCormick is its vice president), sister-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Peru Fred Morris Dearing; in Havana...
Divorced. Cyrus McCormick III, vice president of International Harvester Co. ; by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick, stock company actress under the names of Doro thy Willard and Mary Butler; in Chicago. Ill. Charge: cruelty. Alimony asked...
...whether this is the fault of Yale or of the instructor who plans the course. In my day at the University of Chicago instructors seemed to have much influence. Stodgy professors examined us in the minutiae of English literature; far-sighted men such as Robert Morss Lovett, James Weber Linn and Robert Herrick got at the essentials...