Word: nella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock tonight, the Circolo Italiano will hold a meeting in the Phillips Brooks House, which will be open to the public. Professor Gaetano Salvemini will speak in Italian on "La Posizione Geographica d'Italia nella Politica Internazionale Europa." There will also be chamber music by Corelli and Frescobaldi...
...moved over into the camp of his fellow Virginian Carter Glass. "There is enough of Thomas Jefferson left in me," said he. "to insist that . . . no Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual Cotton Carnival with William Nedy Mallory (All America football captain of Yale,1924) as King. But Congressmen were less lighthearted. They could see in their...
ANNE SULLIVAN MACY: The Story Behind Helen Keller-Nella Braddy-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Helen Keller, the blind deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted...
...theatrical celebrity falls into two divisions. By 1925 she had acquired the financial problems which customarily overtake actors who are too fond of their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected that the producers who remembered her would...