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Mother Mary Aubert, as the English colony called her, spent her days begging for her "Home of Compassion," collecting food in a wicker baby carriage which she wheeled through Wellington's streets. More & more women came to join her in her work and she called them "Sisters of Our Lady of Compassion." When the women quietly began to dig the foundations for a hospital, New Zealand's governor himself led a working party that completed...
...company collapsed. It reorganized the following year, changed its name to Metropolitan in 1868. It got another bad jolt in the 1918 flu epidemic, when at the peak of the disaster, more than 5,000 claims a day were trundled into Metropolitan's home office, loaded in huge wicker baskets. Metropolitan paid 68,000 death claims...
...could get. Staff artists sculptured likenesses of Haitian beauties, chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...
Three Enemies. Gathered together beneath a banner bearing the silver-spangled motto, YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE,* 5,000-odd Northern Baptists wandered in the corridors outside the hall among a variety of exhibits (on everything from the merits of missions to the evils of alcohol), chatted warmly in the wicker-furnished "Friendship Patio," looked in on the nursery where convening parents parked their offspring...
Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mamas") Tucker admitted to being a landmark. To the New York Public Library she presented all the personal theatrical scrapbooks of her 43 years of trouping (more than 200 of them, in three trunks and a wicker hamper). They would be filed in the reference rooms as the library's "most comprehensive collection of material on vaudeville and cabaret entertainment...