Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of hybrid nature, something between Prophezzors and Satellites, called Shock-Producers, whose function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems impossible to do one without the other...
...awards: To Elihu Root (lawyer, public official); Oliver Wendell Holmes (jurist); Charles W. Eliot (educator...
HARVARD YALE Kelsey g. g. Reed Levin pt. pt. Wallace Watson c. pt. c. pt. Root Linn f.d. f.d. McKeon Reed s.d. s.d. Hogue Simpson t.d. t.d. McKenzie Rubin c. c. Chalmers Sullivan t.a. t.a. Morse Norris s.a. s.a. Hannah Salter f.a. f.a. Gilman Gillies o.h. o.h. Friedler Morrison i.h. i.h. Nelson...
VARIETY?R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...
Married. Franklin P. Adams ("F. P. A."), 43, colyumist for The New York World, to Miss Esther S. Root, 30; at Stamford, Conn. He was divorced privately, last month, from Mrs. Minna Schwartze Adams...