Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
There were a marble bust and a slim bather spun in clay by Barbara Herbert of Manhattan, first U. S. sculptress ever admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...
Married. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to one Curtis Dean Dall of Manhattan; by Rev. Endicott Peabody, Headmaster of Groton school, who married her parents...
Married. Miss Dorothy Anna Maria Schurman, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman to one James Marshall McHugh, Lieutenant U. S. M. C.; at the U. S. Embassy, Berlin, in the presence of the German Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, and his wife and many another...
Engaged. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, famed Manhattan lawyer; to Curtis Bean Dall of Manhattan...