Word: nee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harrison '32, J. B. Hawes '32, John Heard '33, H. R. Hermann '33, F. S. Holmes '31, J. S. Jones '31, J. E. Larkin '32, G. L. Lewis '30, G. W. Lewis '32, W. F. Mann '30; James Marshall '31, R. I. McKesson '31, F. W. Nee '30, V. D. Nelson...
...talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over...
Came news last week that the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) had changed the city's name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population) mass-met under a lowering sky, furiously handclapped speeches of indignation as rain began to patter, signed under umbrellas a potent petition of protest. On dispersing to their homes they expressed their feelings further by breaking several Trondhjem windows...
Died. Princess Alfred Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, (nee Catherine Britton) 37, of Vienna, wife of a onetime member of the Austro-Hungarian Diplomatic Corps in the U. S.; in Vienna...
Last week, in Las Vegas, Nev., his photograph was taken standing in a fond attitude in front of a clergyman with Act ress Ina Claire (nee Fagan). Once glorified by Florenz Ziegfeld, later an able comedienne, she had gone to Hollywood three weeks before to make a picture...