Word: macleans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alexander Robinson MacLean, Winchell McKendree Craig...
...knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted shortly afterward. In 1914 she married Captain Jan Smuts, cousin...
...MACLEAN Whaletown...
Last week grey-maned Dr. Malcolm Shaw MacLean, dean of University of Minnesota's General College, delivered the famed Inglis Lecture at Harvard, proposed that teaching of arithmetic continue through college. "I know of one nurse," said he, "who gave a child a lethal two-thirtieths of strychnine because there was no bottle containing one-sixtieth...
Concluding on a note of hope, MacLean said, "For the development of American education to these ends, it seems clear that we are finding and beginning to apply new formulae and then the 'confusion and chaos' out of present conflicts and uncertainties is on the way to perhaps temporary but orderly resolution...