Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, 79-year-old Dickinson S. Miller, an ex-Harvard professor of philosophy, fought eviction from his one room apartment with new fervor. When his landlady snitched his key some months ago, he had made the window his doorway. But when "a sudden incursion of people" swept away his bed, the lights and most of the furniture while he was in the bath, Professor Miller went to law. He wanted his bed back...
...cast: David S. Biddle '49 as John Alden; J. Jay Hughes '48 as Standish; Julian B. Hatton, Jr. '48 as Priscilla; Jerome Dickinson '48 as Desire; Frederick F. Lamont, Jr. '48 as Billington; Theodore Allegretti '47 as Massassoit; Eugene A. Gruhler '46 as Whitefeather ' Charles G. Loring, Jr. '48 as Pratt; Edward M. Lamont '48 as Carver; J. Bradley Cumings 3rd '46 as Allerton; Robert L. Daley '47 as Humility complete the list...
Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...
...hubbub of balloting, all discipline was lost. Cried Club President Mrs. LaFell Dickinson: "Ladies, will you please shut up!" There was even a dark suspicion that some of the alternates were voting illegally. Admonished the chairman: "I know that none of our women would cheat but some might be excited and forget...
When they had finished, President Dickinson admitted she couldn't tell the delegates where the next convention would be. Said she with some asperity: "It seems like no one wants...