Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Stella Dallas is an excellently written novel dealing with a genuine problem?the problem of the woman who marries, as the Victorians called it, " above her station," and does her best to fit into her new environment but cannot, while her children can. The central character of Stella is exceedingly well drawn, without obvious propagandizing or a straining for flashy effect. Stella is first of all a human being, not a type, and the same is almost as true of the other principal characters ? even the somewhat pluperfect and superaesthetic Mrs. Morrison...
...America has done more in architecture than in any other art. Despite that fact, architects are not famous. Buildings are not signed. Thus, men know of Whistler but not of Richardson who did the Trinity Church at Boston. Thus men know Sargent, but not McKim who did the Pennsylvania station in New York. Other great architects: Bulfinch, Latrobe, McComb, Pope, Platt, Hunt, French...
Prof. Karl Pearson presented, through the press, a moving appeal for American financial assistance in preserving the home of Charles Darwin at Down, Kent, offered for sale, as a memorial museum and experiment station for research in evolution and genetics. Darwin lived there from 1842 until his death in 1882, and most of his books, including the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, were written there. The New York Evening Post, commenting on Prof. Pearson's plea that the war has left England too poor to do this, says: "Americans should be proud to raise part...
Ambassador Harvey: " I arrived in Washington from London to be the two weeks' guest of the President and Mrs. Harding. The White House truck had to make two trips from the station to bring our 20 trunks...
...means have the Democratic Convention in New York City ?and let us hold it in Tammany Hall, or in the New York Central Station, or in the spacious offices of Banker Morgan, under the smiling portrait of King George...