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...Rolla, Mo., last winter, Rev. Paul Bennett, young savior, distributed handbills accusing Teacher Olive Warren of "smoking and helping a man drink a bottle of whiskey." Last week a jury of farmers retired to decide whether or not Teacher Warren had been libeled. "Smoking and drinking by modern women," counsel for Mr. Bennett told them, "is an established custom. It therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Puffing Teachers | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...Progress celebration in 1933. This model, which is a replica of the whole country in miniature on a scale of one foot to the mile, has been proposed by Dr. Henry A. Buehler, State Geologist of Missouri, and Director of the Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines, stationed at Rolla, Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Model of United States To be Shown at Chicago | 1/7/1930 | See Source »

...part of the soldier De Laubry, saved from execution by the intervention of du Barry, M. Rolla Norman is often more convincing than Sorel, but it is she who seems to lend fire to his lovemaking, aiding him to reach heights of ardor which she herself does not attain...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

...Married. Rolla Wells, 67, Mayor of St. Louis (1901-9), Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (1912-16), to Mrs. Carlotta Clark Church, in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...Playgoer understand that Mr. Rolla Wayne, 2G of the 17 Workshop, has been awarded a constract to design scene-models for next year's production of the Ziegfeld Follies. Mr. Wayne has done many notable sets for Workshop productions, and has won distinction outside the University by the invention of his cycloramic cone, which he expects to employ in his designs for the "Follies." He is at Present working on the scenery for the forthcoming Spring Production of the Workshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC NOTES | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

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