Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disastrous Mumps. Campus fashions were conservative in 1909, and Hamilton sophomores raged at Freshman Woollcott's "excessively wrinkled and bagged trousers, a misshapen corduroy coat, grimy sneakers . . . red fez with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well...
...water. "Imagine 150 American boys rescuing and transporting over 2,000 prisoners out of a territory surrounded by 6,000 Japs. We left behind us many graves filled with starved internees. . . . "Our Army men and officers certainly are angels. . . . Oh! how wonderful it is to be an American!" . . . MABEL F. RICE Whittier, Calif...
BOLTS OF MELODY-Emily Dickinson-edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham - Harper...
...Mabel Thorp Boardman, 80-odd, able, stately, longtime (25 years) secretary of the American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...
With a seven percent increase in contributions needed in order to meet the quota, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association will open its annual Christmas Seal drive at Harvard on November 27, it was announced yesterday by Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary...