Word: mott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chale is the famed French heroine-nurse of World War I who as Mile Georgette Saint-Paul won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with two palms and two stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets off to the Maginot Line...
Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in the crypt of the U. S. Capitol-"the first monument of woman to women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony...
Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden...
...Tony Mott Unknown Quantity...
Another unknown quantity who may turn out to be valuable is big Tony Mott who has returned after a two year interval. Mott played fullback in 1936 on Larry Kelley's eleven, was not in college the following year, and last Fall was pent up on the sidelines because of an early injury. Besides his ability in the kicker's role, he is invaluable on the defense...