Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taken to Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, Cora Carpenter told nurses that she too had once been a nurse, that she too had been graduated from the Bellevue Nurses Training School. An old book was found, full of the names of nurses who had received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly...
...They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...
...Koilikuntla, India, the soft padding paws of leprosy touched the face of a betel-nut dealer, name unknown. As he sat by himself, as he fingered the decayed horror of his nose and mouth, there arose in his mind a hideous obsession. At last he gathered some companions about him. Mumbling with loose, torn lips, he made his thoughts clear to them. "I," said...
...Signs. "You are over DULUTH." This type of sky sign was recommended by Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover in a letter to all state governors. He favored marking airways, painting the city's name in huge letters on the tops of highest buildings. Skeptics grumbled. Grumbling they asked if sky scenery must be defaced like roadway scenery by billboards...
...Paris, cats are news. The Feline World, a new monthly, publishes literary, scientific, artistic news of cats under the editorship of "The Cat without a Name." Included is a social column for births, deaths, scandal, gossip among Paris cats...