Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Starr, 74, famed anthropologist, authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students...
Married. Louis Untermeyer, 47, writer; and Esther Antin, Toledo's first woman lawyer; in Manhattan. In 1928 Poet Untermeyer, after divorcing his second wife, remarried his first wife, Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer, '"because," said he, "I usually love her." Their redivorce was revealed in July...
...Sawyer, S. J. Seder, Dickson Smith, W. F. Smith, O. S. A. Sprague, P. C. Staples, R. M. Starr, F. E. Strobhar, T. J. G. Tighe, A. K. Ware, Duncan Warren, T. H. Waferman, H. P. Welech, C. C. Wells, Straffered Wentworth. Paul Wessinger, C. L. Wheler, E. S. Willis...
...Starr Faithfull. a sexually distraught, neurotic young woman whose death excited the nation (TIME. June 29. 1931, et seq.). died by drowning after she had been drugged with luminal and thrown from a boat, declared Dr. Gettler. A difference of saltiness between the bloods in the right and left cavities of her heart, ''the only positive test of death by submersion." showed that the young woman had actually died in that manner. Dr. Gettler established the blood-saltiness test for drowning by drowning dogs in salt and fresh waters. He found that, in drowning, water always gets into...
...Starr Faithfull being drugged, analysis of her organs showed that she had had about twelve grains of luminal in her body. Two grains make a person sleep, twelve grains may kill but will certainly keep one unconscious for a long period. Someone must have heaved Starr Faithfull over a ship's rail. That someone has not yet been arrested...