Word: whitcomb
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...late Poet James Whitcomb Riley, said Miss Maude Wells, his one-time stenographer: "Sometimes Riley would go for a year or two without touching liquor. When he did start to drink, he drank until his system was satisfied, however. Drinking was a family curse that ran back for generations...
...Shades of Lew Wallace and James Whitcomb Riley...
...Morgan, Minn., one Ralph Whitcomb, 10, coughed up a galvanized staple covered with a rough, weather-beaten coating. His father recalled that the boy had swallowed it four years before...
...healthy 12-year-old child, free from funny fixations, was taken to see Anna Pavlowa dance. The child had no notions of dancing, was to all appearances just a midwesterner with an eight-letter name?Ruth Page, daughter of Dr. Lafayette Page, now director of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for children in Indianapolis. But she left Pavlowa's recital starry-eyed, went home and practiced pirouettes in the parlor...
Dartmouth--Pipe, 2b,; Whitcomb, c.f.; Morton, r.f.; Barber, 1b.; Mack, l.f.; Burch, s.s.; Jenkins, 3b.; Foley, c.; Schneider...