Word: stoneleigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands. She became the best known physical culturist south of Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale. Her main U. S. school is a large, sunny room filled with full-length mirrors, at No. 36 West 59th St.; Manhattan, where last week five important businessmen and 25 young women who hope to become Mensendieck instructors...
...biggest organization of U. S. women is the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Accordingly, Dr. Little sought out Mrs- Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass.; long a prominent clubwoman and president of the Federation in 1932. She was glad to interrupt her work as dean of progressive Stoneleigh College at Rye, N. H., where she trains girls to become businesswomen, to join Dr. Little's crusade. Because she is magnetic and persuasive (Republicans used her to campaign in New Hampshire for Landon), Mrs. Poole has been invaluable in overcoming the not inconsiderable opposition of cancerphobes, getting club...
Last week, on the anniversary of the Little Flower's canonization, Mrs. Post's Newport, R. I., estate, Stoneleigh, became a monastery of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mrs. Post be came a tertiary of the Carmelite order. As a tertiary, she wears the clothes of the Carmelites, vows to follow their strict rule. While it is not obligatory for a novice to live the cloistered life, Mrs. Post will...
Third of Newport estates to be given to a Catholic order, Stoneleigh was first prepared for its use the year Mrs. Post was cured. Then its low walls were raised so high that the curious could not peek over. Last summer, the Father General of the Carmelite Order visited in Stoneleigh, probably was told the estate would pass into his jurisdiction...