Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Gertrude Lintz has trained gorillas, chimpanzees, Saint Bernards, owls, rare rabbits for 14 years. Her affection for great apes two years ago alienated her doctor-husband-a stomach specialist sometimes taken for a veterinarian because his home was also his wife's menagerie. When she announced she had trained a chimpanzee to talk, she was invited by Sanka Coffee to have it speak on their We, the People radio program. At the broadcast, female chimpanzee Susan, proud in a man's grey business suit and huge napping basketball shoes, sat by in a chair...
...spite of the fact that Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used...
...members of the House of Soong, the most potent in China, huddle for long in Hong Kong it will be certain that a great many jigs are up. Starting from Hankow three weeks ago, the Soongs' relative by marriage, Dr. Sun Fo, son of China's late saint Dr. Sun Yatsen, sped via Hong Kong to Europe, arrived last week at The Hague. There Son Sun called an emergency council of China's chief diplomatic envoys in Europe, including famed Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Observers assumed that Sun was inquiring desperately of China...
...Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...
...Paris, entered the Paris Conservatoire, studied more composition, more violin, composed extensively and had his compositions widely performed. Today, at the age of 56, Enesco is almost as familiar a figure to the Parisians and the Viennese as to the Rumanians, who regard him as their musical patron saint...