Word: marietta
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...hero deserts the priesthood for the stage. It is the shabby stage of Tip Thompson's variety show on the Texas border. In its centre is Marietta, gir! of his seminar}' village. She deserts his studious quietness for the more flagrant physical attractions of Dedaux, the Knife Thrower. "The Saint" has lost his girl and lost...
...town of Marietta, Ohio, is situated Marietta College. There last week the class of 1884 was holding its 40th reunion. Naturally since a big Convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll-call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '84s who were listening in. And he exclaimed picturesquely: "Well, I declare...
Congratulations began to pour in at the Dawes homestead (in Marietta). He stayed there less than 24 hours after his nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...
...example, a descendant of one William Dawes who emigrated from England in 1635. Another William Dawes, one of his ancestors, was a companion of Paul Revere in the famous equestrian escapade near Boston. In 1865 he was born, in Marietta, son of General Rufus R. Dawes commander of the Iron Brigade of Wisconsin. He worked his way through Marietta College as chief engineer of a small railroad in Ohio. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. Then he began to move ? law practice in Lincoln, Neb. ? presidency Lacrosse Gas Light & Coke Co. ? presidency Northwestern Gas Light & Coke...
...Ward 1G.B., of the 1922 Marietta College team...