Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's parade was advertised in advance as the last the G. A. R. would ever hold. But the spunky oldsters enjoyed it so much that they proceeded to elect a new commander-in-chief, C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburgh, optimistically plan a 71st Encampment in Madison, Wis. next year...
Year later when the exhibition opened in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, newspaper critics who were uncertain how to treat Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, leaped at the Nude Descending a Staircase as a safe object of ridicule. Daily stories announced that it had been hung upside down, that it was the work of a madman. The picture was promptly bought by the late San Francisco Art Dealer Frederic C. Torrey who sold it to Author Walter Arensberg...
...limousine, rode out through the gates of Groton School. In similar fashion, dozens of times each year, "The Rector" starts out for New York and Boston to marry old Groton boys. This time he was bound for Albany where, next evening, he was guest of honor at the 71st convocation of the University of the State of New York...
...able to sit upright on his throne. Hearstpapers trom coast to coast blossomed with pictures of a virile-looking Hearst on the tennis court with his three eldest sons fat George, thin William Randolph Jr. and John Randolph (see cut). The pictures were taken on Publisher Hearst's 71st birthday and broadcast by his able picture chief, Walter Howey...
...Island (which was later forced by the I. C. C. to turn it over to the Kansas City Southern) the last Gould railroad disappeared from the map. Meantime he had led a quiet, model life -played polo in his youth, joined Troop A of New York's socialite 71st regiment, risen from private to captain, become an ardent marksman. (During the War. although already in military retirement, he volunteered, became a supply sergeant, later a major in the Ordnance Department.) He married Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of a doctor, had two children, Edwin Jr. (killed in a hunting accident...