Word: whose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant elf, meticulousness, good taste, brains, and that French sauce of spirit that explains why Paris can remain, even in wartime, the world's style centre -these qualities combine to make Eve Curie, the 35-year-old daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, a woman whose changes of dress or hairdo sometimes swing whole fashions. Last week Eve Curie wrote in Vogue about what happens to fashions in the face of tragedy...
...spring of 1929 a gangling, 16-year-old kid, with a Daily Racing Form bulging out of his coat pocket, ambled around the grounds at New England's fashionable St. Paul's School, taking bets on the Kentucky Derby. He was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., whose father had gone down with the Lusitania. His mother, twice remarried, owned a fine stable of thoroughbreds, and young Alfred, heir to some $20,000,000, was champing at the bit for the day when he could spend all his time among horses...
...territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow a man down. "White people," says Bishop Rowe, "make me a little tired. They are ready to take everything, and give nothing...
...plead for the hundreds of little children whose nervous constitutions predispose them to stuttering and who need only some stimulus to 'set them off,' " wrote Dr. Greene. "A popular song, making use of repetitive sounds, which children love, is just the stimulus...
...their Sunday best, drove in to Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...