Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regularly, stole money, perfumes and laces from relatives. Then "consumption of the bowels" drove her to bed, where she began memorizing the Scriptures. Recovering, she became no sinful "great lover" despite the boastful penitence which she later expressed. When young Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away...
...Archibald Cary Coolidge Memorial will be unveiled at about 12.10 o'clock today in the hallway of the Harvard College Library. The Memorial will be presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Jerome D. Green '96, on behalf of the group of friends of Professor Coolidge who have contributed to make this gift. President Lowell will respond on behalf of the University...
...Manhattan, one Frederick Weybrach, 14, told his playmates he was going to drink poison, darted into a hallway, downed a dose of iodine and rat poison. A policeman and emetics saved his life. "I don't want to be a mollycoddle," explained Frederick to his father, whose second wife had been making Frederick do her housework...
...Philadelphia matron at a children's party; she was a Polish actress, having scenes with her director; she was an English horsewoman, mouthing at her breakfast; she was a U. S. tourist in an Italian-church; she was a Dalmatian peasant girl, standing in the hallway of a U. S. hospital, asking about her husband who was hurt. Then she was Ruth Draper again, standing on the stage and bowing to the applause...
...little boys walked on either side, one bearing a basket of bread, the other a basket of coal. At each home in the little street, first on one side, next on the other, front doors opened at the click of the silver key. Then Lady Byng flung into the hallway of each house; first a loaf of fine white bread and next a large and sooty piece of coal...