Word: roe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following are patrons and patronesses for the dance: Baron and Baroness Kurt von Tippelskirch, Professor and Mrs. John A. Walz, Professor and Mrs. William G. Howard, Professor and Mrs. Frederick W. C. Lieder, Professor Hugh Leichentritt, Professor and Mrs. Taylor Starck, Professor and Mrs. Walter Silz, Dr. and Mrs. Roe-Merrill S. Heffner, Dr. Fred O. Nolte, Mrs. S. K. Hawkes...
...servings of Oysters a week will combat goiter (by supplying deficiencies of iodine in the diet) and provide significant amounts of vitamins A, B, C, D and G-reported by Bureau of Fisheries' E. J. Coulson, South Carolina Food Research Commission's Roe Eugene Remington...
Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
Instead of telling his story straight out, Author Morley is at some pains, though ineffectually, to convince the reader that a casual acquaintance was so impressed by Hero Roe's unimpressive personality and fate that he determined to write a really microscopically fair biography of him. In spite of this unnecessary ring-around-a-rosy, the facts of the story gradually emerge. Roe was an ordinary but wide-eyed, simple young man. When he married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay...
Flashback: In 1915 Henry Harlan Pyle drove a team from his father's farm to the Forest Hill general store, chaffed Hazel Roe and Bessie Walbeck who were busy packing eggs for shipment. Playful Henry Pyle tickled the girls, wrote their names & addresses on several eggs. Whenever he went to Forest Hill thereafter he asked the girls whether any egg-eaters had written to them. At length he married Bessie Walbeck, had five children. Hazel Roe married and moved to Belair, Md. There last fortnight she received Edgar R. Dobson's letter...