Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supplemented Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan's great bacteriologist: "... A very thoughtful piece of work, whether or not he has found the influenza germ...
...gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically destroyed in a fire, and had to be largely rebuilt, again with Mr. Eaton's assistance. Mr. Eaton never drinks, seldom smokes, spends much time at home with his art-loving wife and seven children (five...
...Second Annual Institute of Statesmanship at Rollins College, Winter Park...
...Second Annual Institute of Statesmanship at Rollins College, Winter Park...
Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...