Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. When Eleanor H. Porter, author of the first two Pollyanna books, died four years ago, Pollyanna ostensibly died with...
...defeated by a vote of 10 to 6 a motion to report the measure. To all intents and purposes the bill was supposed to have been disposed of this session of Congress. But the Muscle Shoals fracas was not past. Only a few days later Senator Heflin, a sup porter of the Ford offer, summoned a witness. Senator Norris, an advocate of Government operation, sat listening in critical silence. The witness was Mrs. E. A. Edmundson of Decatur, Ala., one of the towns in the Muscle Shoals region. Ingenuously, she began her testimony. She smiled genially and recalled that...
...brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said, the drunken porter in Macbeth. But the porter is a gentleman of refinement compared with this pudgy person with the pearl derby and the dancing hips. However, by shutting our eyes and listening to the music, we managed to enjoy this part, and soon the acrobatic lady came on and we recovered our mental poise...
Although the final list of speakers has not been announced, the following men have definitely been procured; E. C. Carter '00, Bernard Clause, Henry S. Coffin '00, Bruce Curry, G. Sherwood Eddy, Kenneth Labourette, Raymond Petty, David R. Porter, J. Henry Soattergood, A. D. Sheffield '96, Fred B. Smith, Norman Thomas, H. H. Tweedr. Opportunity for individual conferences with any of these men will also be provided...
Although the final list of speakers has not been announced, the following men will attend the conference: H. S. Coffin, Norman Thomas, Ray Petty, D. R. Porter, F. B. Smith, Bruce Curry, G. Sherwood Eddy, Bernard Clausen, E. C. Lindeman, H. H. Tweedy, Kenneth Latourette and E. C. Carter...