Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman...
...Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, Bill Douglas that bonds previously payable in gold dollars or foreign currency equal to their gold dollar value are now payable in devalued Roosevelt dollars. Owen Roberts agreed, in the first 5-to-4 decision of the current term. Dissenters: Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Stone and (as usual) Justices McReynolds, Butler...
...break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven't lost your tongue...
...fable relates how a New Hampshire farmer, in return for ten years of prosperity, sold his soul to the devil. To his wedding in 1841 come Secretary of State Daniel Webster (to kiss the bride) and the Devil (to have his due). Neighbor Webster, the great lawyer, defends Farmer Stone before a special jury of villains out of Hell and U. S. history, wins an acquittal by touching their memories of Freedom...
...Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence H. Sloane Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon H. Slosberg Jane Woronack, Brooklyn, N. Y.George L. Snow II Peggy Ann Cross, Wellesley HillsErnest C. Staber Betty Faye Smith, Kansas City, Mo.Richard B. Stedman Anne Derrick, Washington, D. C.Richard Stern Nancy McKelvie, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.Bayard C. Stone Jeanne Sipley, Elkins Park, Pa.John E. Tully Mary Grist, West RoxburyRichard N. Thomas Elinor Bennett, FalmouthCharles Thurlow III Constance Guitner, Columbus, OhioLeo W. Tobin Melva Whittemore, BostonLester H. Tobin Sylvia Goldsmith, Bridgeport, Conn.Philip W. Trumbull Peggy Seaver, New Bedford, Conn.Arthur W. Viner Jean Freeman, Winnetka, Ill.Jacob A. Walker Marion Baird...