Word: whitcomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...heard Bill Nye tell stories and Frank Harris converse. Eugene Debs, Eugene Field, the late La Follette, James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Helen Keller and numerous newsboys, janitors, cabbies, children were or are among his acquaintances...
Forty years ago James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye collaborated on and published a railroad guide. Said they: "What this country needs is a railway guide which will not be cursed with a plethora of facts or poisoned with information. In other railway guides pleasing fancy, poesy and literary beauty have been throttled...