Word: santas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chest has Butte, Mont. But one pre-Prohibition day, some of Butte's businessmen, having a drink together before going home to carve the Christmas goose, were confronted by a starving beggar. Said he: "My wife is ill and I've got children who are absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte...
...Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic; a policeman encountered it, shot seven times, killed...
...liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which may go to prove that there is a Santa Claus...
Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa...
...famed Yehudi Menuhin, 13 (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928), is a San Franciscan and a pupil of Louis Persinger. Unlike Yehudi, he is neither chubby nor Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years ago the Ricci...