Word: barnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes Hall, the women's centre, given by the late La Verne Noyes ("Dealer in People," inventor of the aeromotor) in memory of his wife. Here the induction procession formed, young President Hutchins preceded by the trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty...
Menagerie. "Throughout my four terms in Albany one of the attractions of the Executive Mansion was animals. In my first term I confined the menagerie to ponies, dogs, birds . . . later I had at various times raccoons, bears, elk. deer, monkeys, rabbits, pheasants, a red fox, barn owls, and for awhile a goat named Heliotrope...
...accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
Fire Fighter. Unknown is the flyer who last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All stopped to gape while he, intelligent, flew between house and granary 40 times, fanning the flames against the wind until they died down. Then off he went about his own business...
After the blackening destruction that followed the blaze in Patrick O'Leary's barn at 137 De Koven St. on the night of Oct. 8, 1871, the city convulsed in agony, caught its breath. It shook its head, came up for a final, triumphant round. Among its innovators were: Cyrus McCormick and his reaper; George Pullman and his "palace car"; Pinkerton and his sleuths; Bross and his Tribune; Frances Willard and her "praying women"; Brunswick, Balke and their billiard table; Rand McNally and his maps; Crane and his valves; Kimball and his pianos; Kuppenheimer and his clothes...