Word: sanatoriums
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...Whittier recalled that they knew Col. Robins' identity all the time. John C. Dreier. Col. Robins' nephew, arrived from Manhattan, confirmed the identification. The 59-year-old Prohibitionist, wearing a two months' growth of whiskers, clung desperately to his assumed character. He was taken to a sanatorium at Asheville to be treated for amnesia. Mrs. Robins arrived from Florida, reported her interview with her husband thus...
...addressed her by her first name. After an exchange of greetings described as "emotional." he said: "Doctor. I am Raymond Robins and this is my wife, Margaret Dreier Robins." Late in the afternoon he was shaved, changed into his regular clothes, announced that he would remain at the sanatorium until "fully rested." At Whittier it was discovered that Reynolds Rogers kept news clippings about the missing Raymond Robins-chairman of the Progressive National Convention in 1916, Red Cross relief administrator to Russia in 1917-18, Klondike gold hunter, longtime social worker, churchman and Prohibition crusader. The establishing of his whereabouts...
...Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, in Los Angeles whither he had been taken from a New Mexico sanatorium with pleurisy of both lungs; Adolph S. Ochs, 74, publisher of the New York Times, in Manhattan, following removal of a kidney; Dr. Johann Schober, 57, onetime chancellor of Austria, in Vienna, of a critical heart attack; Mayor Anton J. Cermak, 59, of Chicago, reputedly from convention fatigue and overeating (pickled pigs' feet...
...sole benefit, the monopoly and prestige of the Fox family name." She said that when her husband incorporated Aaron Fox Film Corp., he "incurred the severe displeasure and disdain" of Brother William, who, with the connivance of a Manhattan alienist, had Brother Aaron whisked away to a sanatorium, the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat. There Brother Aaron still remains, she said, making no effort to get out for fear of further persecution from Brother William. Mrs. Aaron Fox added that Brother William had taken over Brother Aaron's affairs, had forced her children (aged 4 & 6) "to a point where they have...
...sanatorium in which 12-year-old Halcyon can recover from her fantastic poethood, Capt. Day chooses his sister Madge's strictly common-or-garden English home. Here everybody tries to help her "find her own level," "cut her corners off" by making her "knock about" with other children. But Halcyon refuses to be either comforted or tamed. Her sophistication is more than a pose. Her tweedy, game-crazy playmates she finds hopelessly dull. Then suddenly, while moping one day in the ruins of Beaulieu Abbey, she meets Eden Herring...