Word: thomason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorry sight. The scene in Sydney was doubly sorry because the yacht was the Marabel, a pleasure craft which had just been remodeled as a hospital ship and given by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...
...weeks ago, at the ceremonious opening of a $120,000 mission hospital at St. Anthony, on the uppermost tip of Newfoundland, Sir William Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland and Laborador, acting on instructions from his King, smote Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell on the right shoulder with a sword and bade "the Knight Errant of the North" arise a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...
...PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of exploding shrapnel, his stories lack the controlled and deliberate, effectiveness of heavier artillery...
...front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...Pictures share equally with the writing in story-telling importance. Artist Thomason draws as he writes except that he does it a little better. In sketches full of rapid motion his pen achieves subtleties which his typewriter is too unwieldy to reproduce. The current Cosmopolitan Magazine introduces him as a full-fledged professional illustrator of other people's stories...