Word: robson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson), famed philanthropist, onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into...
...Robson). Aunt Mary's nephew enters an automobile race and she clambers into the car to feed him pumpkin pie while he roars around the track. The heroine (Phyllis Haver) fears this will be the death of the 70-year-old lady, so she commandeers an ambulance and tears after them. In the end, everybody is feeling fine, including the audience and a patient who is discovered crawling out of the ambulance...
Advertising men and their women folks went to Denver, last week, for the 23rd annual convention of the International Advertising Association. A British delegation, led by President Lome C. Robson of Newcastle-upon-Thyne Advertising Club, appeared dressed as dervishes and dizzy from whirling in the train baggage-car to the noise of a portable phonograph...
...Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, of a darkling and somewhat chilly New England, singing the two Isolts...
...Robson will be tried in September by Fuhrer and Ostheimer after the main party has returned to Jasper...