Word: maud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering in the mysterious chemistry of life...
Bridling at the censorship, the Workshop cited historical precedent in Maud Adams 1911 "Lady Godiva" jaunt through Harvard Yard, and trotted out plans for construction of a hay-lined dressing room...
...Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...
...MAUD PROCTOR SCHUTZ
This is as close to rough talk as This Was My Newport ever gets. The memories of Maud Howe Elliott reach back to the days when Newport tradespeople sent out their bills once or twice a year and closed their shops at noon. At the height of the Newport season, the regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward...