Word: 117th
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President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness...
...half-dozen foreign countries. Internationally-minded, he sees the advantages, the necessity of internationally-minded education. He would not mind see ing in Columbia a university city like that in Paris where 15 countries will have dormitories to house their Paris students (TIME, Sept. 10). Already on 117th Street beside the Deutsches Haus are a Casa Italiana, a Maison Franchise...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy has baptised President Nicholas Murray Butler's new Italian House project for Columbia University with two paintings, one by Bottini and the other by Petiti. The cornerstone is to be laid at 117th street and Amsterdam avenue, August 5. Mussolini promises to donate Friar of Assisi memorials. A library of 15,000 volumes is being assembled which will comprehend the entire Italian civilization, its only counterpart existing in Venice. Further contributions to the Italian house are planned by the Italian Government, which wishes to encourage "this worthy cultural enterprise...
...Pierian Sodality orchestra begins its 117th concert season next Tuesday evening, November 6, when it gives a concert at the Shakspere Tercentenary celebration at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston...