IN MOST LANGUAGES, if someone said you had cancer, it would be a diagnosis. In Dutch, it is more likely to be an insult. Kankerlijer (“cancer-sufferer”) is one of a long list of Dutch profanities and ...

Lillian Geisler, a native of Millersville, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1936 from Millersville State Teachers College where her father was the chef at the college’s dining hall. When she accepted a ...