Lillian

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This account recalls a number of telling details of that era, when Jane Addams taught citizenship at Chicago’s Hull House, Lillian Wald dispatched visiting nurses from New York’s Henry Street Settlement and Simkhovitch, in 1902, founded and led New York’s Greenwich House.

From The Wall Street Journal

In March 1981, two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan turned up at the Kennedy Center for the premiere of a new production of Lillian Hellman‘s “The Little Foxes,” and was photographed happily congratulating a smiling Elizabeth Taylor backstage.

From Los Angeles Times

Local Transport minister Lillian Greenwood praised Waymo's planned rollout on social media Thursday.

From Barron's

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and Cody’s other circuslike attractions brought audiences across the U.S. and Europe dramatic re-enactments of frontier life, featuring the pony express and stagecoach robberies, feats of skill from sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Lillian Smith, races and rodeo acts, and demonstrations of Native American culture, which even included Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull at one point.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s footage of him giving a tour of his home, where he shows off the art collection he started with his late wife, Lillian Miles.

From Salon