Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow afternoon, Sunday November 18, the Symphony Orchestra will give a concert for the benefit of its Pension Fund. Mme. Matzenauer will assist it in an all-Wagner program...
...Author. Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and died at Fontainebleau, France (Jan. 9, 1923), at the age of 34. Her first book, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, in England, when she was 21. In 1913 she married J. Middleton Murry, English critic, editor, novelist. Her other books are Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party (1922). At the time of her death she had just become universally recognized as the foremost writer of short stories in English...
...number was issued on Sept. 1 and regular publication will commence on Oct. 27. Its leading article was on New York, Wonder City of the World. Others were: Campaign to Reduce Auto Accidents; The Alaska Problem; The Market?Past, Present, Future; Playgrounds of the United States (by Hubert Work); Pension Office Will Speed Up; /Suggestions on Women's Apparel. The illustrations consist of 35 photographs of New York City, photographs of two authors of articles, six photographs of National Parks (including Old Faithful Geyser, Yosemite Falls, the Grand Canyon and the giant trees of California) and three fashion plates...
Representative Kelly (Republican) of Pennsylvania, was obliged to turn away a pension seeker. Saying that he "thought such patriotic service should be rewarded," Mr. Kelly was yet obliged to inform the applicant that Uncle Sam had no special pensions for mothers who bore twins...
...they live? The petty officials of the Government, who receive $10 a month; the physicians who wear themselves out attending patients who can never pay; the writer who receives royalties of $50 for a book, which represented a year of research; the officer's widow, who receives a pension of a few cents a month; the artist obliged to sell a fine etching for half a dollar; in short those who once had a little leisure or money and who could transmit and enlarge the nation's fund of knowledge and beauty, how do they live ? " An example...