Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stratford-on-Avon, Miss A. Justins received from a producer of plays in Toronto, Canada, a cable addressed to "William Shakespeare, care Mayor." The producer, pleased by The Taming of the Shrew, offered to buy the rights to William Shakespeare's previous plays, to read what- ever he might write in the future...
...Reverend G.R.P. Sclater, Minister of Old St. Andrew's Church, Toronto, Canada, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
Once Miss Bendelari lived in Joplin, Mo. She went to school in Toronto: studied, worked at costume design in New York. In 1924, vacatoning in France, she learned that French shoes (broad, short) did not fit the feet (long, narrow) of U. S. women. To please them, she borrowed $1,000 from her father, set a solitary shoemaker to work with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris...
...Professor Collip, what? Possibly the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was one of the co-discoverers, with Professor Frederick Grant Banting of the University of Toronto of insulin, another hormone. And Professor Banting received with his colleague John James Rickard Macleod the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine...
Most important of the many milestones along the obscure Eaton route was 1905., when he graduated from McMaster's University (Toronto) and descended upon the U. S., settling in Cleveland. In this first excursion there was, however, no quest for a golden fleece. Mr. Eaton's sole purpose in coming to Cleveland was to join an uncle, Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton,* in spreading the Baptist Gospel, although he himself was never ordained...