Word: pottered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was a fact. Father chuckled and said she was a caution. They could not keep her in school, she did not seem to like school, but she got all the education money could buy. In Paris, for instance, the Walshes got clubby with Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Evalyn was allowed to touch her stomacher. When they let Evalyn go abroad on her own to study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles and giving her chaperones the slip. And she had a strong sense of curiosity. "I learned most...
...Potter, Eliot K-11: Friday 3-5 o'clock...
...throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned in 1919 to help organize the New School for Social Research. Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation of two continents; of pneumonia; near Cannes. In 1912 she retired to the Isle of Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry...
Born. To Fred Astaire, 36, cinema's No. 1 hoofer; and Phyllis Livingston Baker Potter Astaire, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 6½ lb. Name: Fred...
...last week's meeting of sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...