Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motionless in a wheelchair, swathed in blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate...
...insurgents, and delivered his oral message (not a letter, Elbert Hubbard to the contrary). The "message" asked General Garcia about the strength of his troops, which were to collaborate with the U. S. Army in fighting Spain. President McKinley's comment, when he and his Cabinet received Hero Rowan, was: "Colonel, you have performed a very brave deed...
...near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains...
Eighty-year-old Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, who 40 years ago carried William McKinley's famed "Message to Garcia," fell in his San Francisco home, fractured...
Professor Rowan made his latest observations on trapped finches, whose cages he jostled for 7½ minutes daily, and on starlings which he caught with difficulty in London's noisy West End. Commented the professor: "Collecting birds at night in the centre of London was more easily said than done." In all cases the sex organs of those abnormally disturbed birds were larger and more fit for propagation than the sex organs of normal birds. The chain of physiological events which causes such sex stimulation is not altogether clear. In the case of light, it seems "that light falling...