Word: ormonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ames's father, who died last year at 97, was the last Yankee governor of Mississippi, the last surviving Union general of the Civil War. He was long the daily golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller at Ormond Beach, Fla. When Adelbert Ames Jr. set out to track down aniseikonia in 1927, it was John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who furnished the money. Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported the fact that Son Rockefeller himself has aniseikonia, that he has obtained considerable relief from his iseikonic spectacles...
...Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted into the Pullman a friend asked: "How do you feel?" "Splendid!" said he. But in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, where his private cars were hooked...
...Ormond Beach next day an armed guard held back a crowd of 50 welcomers while Mr. Rockefeller, blinking through yellow goggles and again warmly clad, was carried in an ambulance chair from train to waiting automobile. "Howdy, Mr. Rockefeller," cried an acquaintance. "Howdy," piped Mr. Rockefeller. His servants pulled down the car's shades, smoothed his blankets, fussed with his coat. "I'm all right," he sighed, a little irritably. Someone asked the servants how he had stood the trip. "It's fine weather," said they...
Weakened by a prolonged cold, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. abandoned his annual trip to his Ormond Beach, Fla. winter home...
...often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there is abundance. But happily, it is accompanied by faithful, intelligent, and occasionally inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...