Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drake) ; in Chicago. Married. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 29, champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress ; in San Diego. In procuring the license, Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man," Miss Taylor her age as 26 (probable age, 32). Died. Julius Fleischmann, 53, famed philanthropist, sportsman; in Miami, Fla. He dropped dead of heart disease while engaged in a game of polo. Son of Charles Fleischmann, founder of the famed Fleischmann Yeast Co., Mr. Fleischmann was elected Mayor of Cincinnati when he was 28, was reflected for a second term in 1903, was asked...
...after years Mrs. Woodhull went to England with her sister Tennessee, who followed her in the Woman Suffrage movement. While lecturing there she was heard one night by John Biddulph Martin, a wealthy English banker and philanthropist. Anon they were married. Tennessee also made an advantageous marriage to Lord Cook. She died abroad recently. Mrs. Martin, erstwhile Woodhull, neé Claflin, lives on, known as a "financier and reformer." She has written a number of works, including The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government and Garden of Eden Stirpiculture. Her recreations are scientific agriculture, psychical research, motoring...
Distinction comes to her naturally, not only in her own person but as a daughter and a wife. For her father was William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, who at 22 was editing the first prohibition paper in the country (the National Philanthropist), who at 24 (in 1829) was joint editor of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, published weekly in Baltimore. He went to prison for failure to pay a fine of $50 for libel when he had referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed...
...champion of vegetarians, has recently made his gastronomic faith the topic of a campaign speech. The road away from revolution, says he, is through meat. Meat is a soporific, vegetables put fire in the eye. As examples he cites the bull rhinoceros, the elephant, and the human vegetarian philanthropist. The most effective example, however, is Mr. Shaw himself. On a garden diet he turns out more invective than any other man in England...
...Bakelite type. People will read Bakeliterature, Bakelitigate their cases, offer Bakeliturgies for their dead, bring young into the world in Bakelitters. Dr. Baekeland is a man in middle years, erect, rugged, taciturn, with the sensitive mouth of a field marshal and the cold eyes of a philanthropist. Of medium height, courtly, dignified, he adopts the old-world manner, shuns personal publicity, wants to be known only in connection with his scientific work, makes many addresses before scientific societies. In addressing the Society last week, he spoke of Science as an enemy of War, making the point that as modern discoveries...