Word: stulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...
...Louis, Mrs. Nellie B. Stull, marriage broker, founder of the Widow & Widower's Club of America, complaining that business is bad, said: "A man admires the woman who makes him think but he keeps away from her. He likes the woman who makes him laugh. He loves the girl who hurts him. But he marries the woman who flatters him. It was always competition more than love that got men into matrimony. Now with so many women hanging around, flattering them, there isn't any more competition...
...Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right." Stolid Mr. Miller tried to look at ease. It took the Countess only a jiffy to pick Mr. Kabelac...
Burbled Mrs. Stull, striving to get her short arms about the happy couple: "They are both dear, darling doodles and just think, it was my Widows' & Widowers' Club that brought them together...
Only snag in the course of the romance was struck when Mrs. Stull heard that marriages in Manhattan required three days' notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory...