Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheller Stone, 53, chief of the Italian Affairs section at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy, ex-head of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; by Louise Wardwell Stone; after twelve years, three children; in Reno...
...summer's day in 1911, a visitor who was bathing in his lake momentarily got out of her depth, screamed for help. Seventy-four-year-old Gilbert promptly swam out, and ordered: "Put your hand on my shoulder." She obeyed-and he sank like a stone. Only a short while before he had made one of his most typical-but most inaccurate-witticisms: "I fancy that posterity will know as little of me as I shall know of posterity...
Ruth Zemurray Stone is now a trustee, as well as a graduate, of Radcliffe and holds a research fellowship for study in Central American Archaeology...
Zemurray's gift, as announced yesterday by Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe College, established a chair to be know as the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe professorship. The presentation was made in honor of the donor's son, a Business School graduate killed in the war, and his sister, a graduate of Radcliffe...
...that time the London bureau was itself very much a part of the crisis. Its offices in Dean House were stone cold, and people in the inside rooms worked by candlelight. Not being classified "essential," the bureau could not use lights or heaters during the forbidden hours. Osborne made his assignments and told his staff to go anywhere they could find warmth for that one afternoon, anyway...