Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Mazo de la Roche, whose face and name are reminiscent of French forbears, was born in Toronto, educated thoroughly and spasmodically. She went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition...
...Reverend W. H. Sedwick, Minister of the Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, Ontario will conduct the services at Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Right Reverend W. H. Sedgwick Minister of the Metropolitan United Church at Toronto, Ontario, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
...house of Charles Scribner's Sons, dreamed a dream. Thirty years ago (in 1897) he saw his dream come true. Frank N. Doubleday (with $25,000 borrowed money) had established a concern for the dissemination of books. George Henry Doran also was a stubbornly ambitious office boy- in Toronto and Chicago publishing houses. In 1909 he founded his own publishing company. The new Doubleday, Doran & Co. proposes to be the most efficient existing avenue down which an author's ideas, facts & fancies may ride to the bookshelves of the world. Doubleday, Doran & Co. is certainly the most potent...
Latterly, after the World War, when he had established himself as professor of public health administration at Columbia University and as associate editor of the Nation's Health and of the Survey, he made a study of child growth, in localities as scattered as Manhattan, Toronto and Honolulu. He found that under favorable conditions children grew without relation to the seasons of the year; he decided that children who grew lanky & gawky in the spring, grew lanky & gawky because they had fevers...