Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HARVEY STEVENSON...
Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...
...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...
...Moorman discusses notable cases of consumptive genius-or as consumptive Katherine Mansfield called it, "the faint glitter on the plant that the frost has laid a finger on." A year before his death in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "For 14 years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew...
...spare her colleagues whatever "embarrassment" her public defense of King Leopold might bring them, Sculptress Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson resigned as vice president of the Belgian Relief Fund, took a deep breath and wrote to 50 fellow committeewomen: "Because of various documents from Belgium which are in my possession I am firmly convinced that the action taken by His Majesty, King Leopold, in surrendering was the only course possible and I know that his contemplated action was only taken after consultation with the British and French commanders and was well known to them in advance and, therefore, when uninformed persons make...