Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...
Ticks and Prejudice. As a young BAI inspector in the early 1900s, John Mohler set out to rid the U.S. of cattle tick fever...
Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...
Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore...
Picturing a bowdlerized version of lusty old San Francisco in the 1900s, Miss Faye & Co. tour Pacific Street's colorful saloons, stage a novel roller-skating dance, hop to Europe for a magnificent shot of a Dutch tulip field, and by way of plot attempt to prove that never the Barbary Coast (John Payne) and Nob Hill (Lynn Bari) shall meet. Technicolor does justice to Miss Bari's talents...