Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nelson Perkins, Harvard Fellow, as acting President. Mr. Perkins has been an outstanding lawyer in Massachusetts for some 35 years. He was the first American member of the Reparations Commission, and in the Reparations Conference last spring he was alternate to Owen D. Young. That he is a Boston aristocrat does not weigh too heavily on his shoulders. He is noted for his democracy and humor...
...will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking ponderously on his specially constructed truck in Waycross, Ga.; engulfing his daily 1,200 lb. of fish; thunderously snorting at his keeper. The unfortunate who really had died was not a circus aristocrat but a mere elephant-seal of the Hagenbeck-Wallace (Ringling-owned) Circus...
...sort of treason?the treason of destructively criticizing a dead man's ideals?was charged last week against that august intellectual aristocrat Dr. Hu Shih. famed as "the foremost Chinese modern thinker," founder of the Chinese Literary Renaissance, first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken language of the people, graduate of Cornell (B. A.) and Columbia...
...Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. by telling him she bore a message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...
Jersey City, N. J., once a little aristocrat among U. S. cities, now a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood, low politics and eager business men whose affairs are deeply complicated by those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three...