Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer. She was one of the party. All slept in two rooms on cots, following the Gurdjieff method, made themselves uncomfortable to break down thought...
...seemed a good time for blatantly Dry Congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas to get up and twit the Wets on their poor showing. Actually it was a bad time. For at that moment another Texas Congressman, paralyzed Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, put his black-gauntleted hands to the wheels of his rolling chair, pushed himself up to the rostrum and squiggled his name in the 145th blank space. Derisive Wet whoops from both sides of the House squelched crestfallen Congressman Blanton...
...piece of detective work, carried along the deductive methods used by the great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious...
...patronesses that have been selected are: Mrs. Eugene F. Du Bois of New York, Mrs. Ronald Mansfield Ferry, Mrs. James D. Henderson, and Mrs. Arthur Beckett Lamb
...Pyles, Rio de Janetro, Brazil, A. B. Read, Jr., Washington, D. C., J. J. J. Reddy, Amesbury, R. C. Rial, Wilkinsburgh, Pa., R. C. Rockwell, Carpenterio, Calif., C. E. Ryan, Jr., Cambridge, R. D. Sard., New York City, C. S. Sargent, Jr., L. I. N. Y., L. Scheffy, West Mansfield, J. P. Scheu, N. Y. City, H. Shershevsky, Dorchester, J. E. Shoemaker, Jr., Auguste, Ga., S. Sinnreich, Hartford, Conn., A. A. Skerpan, Ansonia, Conn., R. W. Stoughton, Warehouse Pt., Conn., I. M. Street, Utica, N. Y., W. Sturgis, Groton, J. Stufman, Allston, T. W. Thorndike, Jr., Cambridge, P. B. Toland...