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...many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom she had slaved away her youth so that he could...
Last week the following was news: Nicholas Roberts, former head of the defunct bosdhouse of S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor") was unceremoniously arrested in Manhattan last August on a charge of grand larceny brought by two Straus bondholders, the Misses Anna & Katherine Kuhlmann (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week Nick Roberts, whose annual barn party for Yale footballers in Montclair, N. J. was a nationally famed event, was completely exonerated. After a short trial the judge ruled that there "was not a scintilla of evidence" to support the charges...
Near Troy, Ohio when a train crashed into her horse & buggy, killing the horse, Mrs. Anna Idemiller, 71, seized an iron ring on the front of the locomotive, held on until the train stopped, escaped with scalp injuries and a broken...
...wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before, had kissed her President-son goodby. ''Sistie's" grandmother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...
There Mr. Roberts was unceremoniously booked on a charge of grand larceny brought by Miss Anna Kuhlmann, 55, and her sister Katherine, 52, both unemployed. They declared that in 1928 they had invested $10,000 through S. W. Straus & Co. in what were misrepresented as first mortgage bonds. Said Mr. Roberts that evening: "It was admitted by counsel for the complainant, at the arraignment, that the complainant had no dealings with me and had never seen or spoken to me. It seems obvious, therefore, that the charge against me is based upon false allegations and is wholly without merit...