Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Shaughnessy, K. C. V. 0., of Montreal and of Ashford, County Limerick, Ireland, third president of Canadian Pacific Railway, was on his deathbed. His successor, Edward Wentworth Beatty, 45, was ushered in. To young Mr. Beatty, Lord Shaughnessy spoke 19 words which have lived in the lore of The World's Greatest Travel System "Take good care of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is a great Canadian property and a great Canadian enterprise...
...Lowell is deep in many things. He is enthusiastically deep in campanology (bell lore). He finds few books more fascinating than De Tintinnabulis by 16th Century Bell-Master Hieronymus Magius. All last week Dr. Lowell's stout old heart was palpitant with the excitement of getting those Russian bells hung just right. There was trouble...
Peruvian Indians did not know the pharmacology of quinine. But they did know that the bark of a certain tree, from which quinine is derived, cured their malaria. They told their lore to a friendly magistrate, Juan Lopez Canizares, when in 1630 he developed the disease. He passed the information to Countess of Chinchon, wife of Peru's then viceroy, when she fell victim. It was after her that the cinchona tree and its quinine derivatives was named...
...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies...
...Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...