Word: elm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Water Street; Baltimore: Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32, Baltimore Life Insurance Company, Charles Street; Mcmphis, Tennessee: Merrill Garcelon '25, 639 Sterick Building; Minnesota: December 30, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Route 1, Wayzata; Omaha: December 22, Roderic B. Crane, University of Nebraska; New Canaan, Connecticut: David C. Marvin, 37 Elm Street...
Said Camp Director James Christian Pfohl: "[Up to now] imported music has peeled off Southern hides like bark off a slippery elm . . . We do not have a topflight professional music school in the South. We hope the students we train will lift the South's musical life...
...everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration of body tissues). Jackson reached Washington after his first election as President "62 years old, racked...
Harvard Club of Milkwaukee, A. William Asmuth, Jr, '38, 735 North Water st,; Harvard Club of Minnesota, William K. Headley '41, 1183 Ashland ave,; St. Paul, Minnesota; Harvard Club of New Canaan, David C. Marvin, 37 Elm...
...town granary which stood where Park Street Church is now located, had its share of troubles. In the old days, underground springs used to fill up the graves with water from time to time, causing the Town Fathers endless drainage worries. And then there were Captain Adino Paddock's elms. Captain Paddock decided Old Granary needed to be dressed up, so he imported 16 elm trees from England and planted them along the cemetery. They were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain once advertised a reward...