Word: rood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast, the corset business held steadily to $75,000,000 in Rood years and had (TIME...
Accordingly, the Committee has voted the varsity rowing "H" to Alastair D. Robertson '33, Armistead B. Rood '31, Rodgers Donaldson '30, David S. M. Lanier '28, Robert W. Herr '28, George Bancroft '27, John B. Olmstead, II, '27, John H. Harwood, Jr. '27 and Robert S. Riley...
...School Committee, composed of Albert N. Webster 3L, Chairman, Nelson P. Rose 2L, J. B. Hyman 2L, Charles A. Horskey 3L, Armistead B. Rood 2L, Howard C. Anderson 3L, and Victor M. Harding, Jr. 2L, have engaged Jacques Mariowe's Waterfront Orchestra for the occasion, the proceeds of which will go toward the Law Loan Library of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...George Rood loses his wife in childbirth at the time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial...
...sympathy with the glass industry. He tries to pass this off and the simple defense mechanism in his words "You and me is farmers nothing else" is strikingly touching. The now grown son, like father, ironically enough, loses the woman he loves to his half brother, and the elder Rood who pays doubly for his sin when Georgie becomes a prominent engineer in a glass works in another city, spends the sunset of his life with Mamie, after Jake Karcher meets his death at the hands of his wife...