Word: memphremagog
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...worse pollution becomes in New York and Boston," says Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis, "the more people will think about moving to the country." He means his own rural state, with its clean air, Green Mountains, free-roaming deer and "the view of Lake Memphremagog when the sun comes up in the morning." But will Vermont stay unspoiled...
Some millions of them were headed for Canada-green, fresh, cool and twice as big as all outdoors. By road, rail and rattletrap they went. In the hot August sun their cars headed north around Lake Champlain and Memphremagog, or along the orange-colored cliffs of Lake Superior and the blue water of Puget Sound...
...collects everything which can be assembled, sorted and classified. (Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum has his series of War helmets, a piece of barbed wire he fetched from a barricade.) Professor Penfield once coached the Princeton football team, is an ardent tennis player, farms extensive acreage near Lake Memphremagog, Quebec, likes good literature, good music. Best of all he enjoys a case of epilepsy...
Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
...brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor...