Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought she had had enough, she turned on the gas. Rona was making a good thing out of a stenographic agency, but left it for a temperamental writer. When he finally deserted her, she started another agency. Ida was a rawboned Middle-western farmer's daughter, a hard worker. She married a mean man. When childbirth killed her he wrote a poem to her memory, saying what a good husband he had been. Emanuela was beautiful, but she was afraid of love. Against vigorous opposition, she remained a virgin. Esther married a poetaster: starvation and cold gave her tuberculosis...
...hundred papers over the weekend, themes, grammar tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...
...year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank...
...last week the policemen on duty in Holy Cross Cemetery at Malden. Mass., had to admonish, direct and keep moving the great throngs who came to touch the lowly tomb of Patrick J. Power, a Catholic Priest dead for 60 years and now, to the faithful, a potent worker of healing miracles (TIME...
Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist...