Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal's Loew's Theatre, McGill University marched for its annual convocation, for a farewell to stumpy, grizzled oldtime Humorist Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract...
Eskimos "can tolerate pain, extreme cold, and fatigue." When the Montreal doctor stopped at Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, he encountered a native who, impatient at the delay of healing a frozen foot, had shortly before amputated the gangrenous portion himself. The wound was healing and the man, "with the aid of a cane, assisted at the unloading of the cargo...
Audrey Buller Parsons is tall, hand some, brunette. Her husband is slender, grey-haired Lloyd Parsons, who paints landscapes. Both were born in Montreal, both paint in the same studio overlooking Manhattan's Washington Square...
...father, the late great eye specialist Dr. Frank Buller, died when she was 3. She tried being a Montreal debutante, gave it up to study at Manhattan's Art Students' League. There Kenneth Hayes Miller told her she could improve her flat, overbright pictures by confining her palette to very few colors. To this good advice she credits the three-dimensional reality of her pictures. It takes her about two months for a painting...
Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Tuberculosis Association, a high-powered money-collecting organization whose publicity has done much to reduce tuberculosis deaths in the U. S. to 70,000 a year, announced that it was giving its Trudeau Medal to Dr. Edward William Archibald, Montreal lung surgeon. He had been recommended for this honor by Dr. Lawrason Brown of Saranac Lake, N. Y., centre for tuberculosis treatment. But to very few of the U. S, anti-tuberculosis enthusiasts in New Orleans last week was able Dr. Archibald more than a name...