Word: stoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later, Miss Jones tells the world that she is a "Lucy Stoner," that she intends to keep her maiden name. Says she: "I refuse to become an echo to my husband. . . . The basis of marriage is not love but congeniality and interest and respect. These alone will bring love...
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Winifred S. Hyman, 24, onetime infant prodigy, one Louis H. Hyman of Manhattan. She used a typewriter at 3, wrote meditations on "Mother Goose" at 5. Her mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, moral objector to "Mother Goose,"* is founder of the League for Fostering Genius...
...Mother Goose was indeed a goose!" Mrs. Stoner has said...
Wary of prodigies, critics were specially wary of Master Farjeon because in explaining his career to date his mother mentioned "Mother" Stoner. The latter, a Mrs James B. Stoner, appeared some years ago out of Norfolk, Va., with a militant theory for making geniuses out of bright children and with a precocious daughter, who had learned to typewrite at the age of three, to substantiate the theory. "Mother" Stoner founded "the Natural Education System," dabbled in Esperanto, attacked Mother Goose as "unquestionably evil" and set up an establishment in Tuckahoe, N. Y. It was at "Mother" Stoner's in Tuckahoe...
...sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South; to Thomas Nolan, Shelba Singer of Pittsburgh, for the East; to Donald Wilson, Louise Stoner of Wichita, for the West; to Lyman Curry, Katherine Osbourne of Chicago, for the North...