Word: ada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnston, Chairman, Miss Adeline Nichols; P. C. Murfitt, Miss Ada Gray; S. W. Whiting, Miss Christine Lane: W. K. Woolman, Miss Pauline Carl; E. S. Daniell, Miss Hazel Damon: R. Jones III, Miss Margaret Peffer...
...specialized in their parents' several talents. Robert M. Jr. is his father's junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...story of the first party, whose four men all perished, has often been told. Last year's relief expedition, headed by Harold Noice, brought back only the Eskimo woman, Ada Blackjack. It left on the island Charles Wells and 13 Eskimos. Nothing has been heard from them since, and Lomen will discover whether they have survived or whether they met the fate of the first luckless colonists. Besides this altruistic motive, Lomen has the inducement of obtaining Stefansson's share in the Wells party's fur catch. A trip to Australia prevents Stefansson from going himself...
...Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S.; Sir Joseph Duveen, art patron; Arne Borg, Swedish swimming champion; Mrs. B. Schinasi, wife of the famed cigarette manufacturer; Hiram H. Walker, distiller of "Canadian Club" whiskey; Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Samuel Insull, Chicago Opera patron; Ada May, late of Lollipop...
...Augustin Daly engaged Skinner to play in his famed company. The great manager is tenderly pictured in all his quaintness; his whims are described, his essentially city character and strong religious tendency. Mr. Skinner found himself associated with Ada Rehan, John Drew, James Lewis, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert. After a tour of the provinces, the company made a successful invasion of England, Germany, France...