Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been an astrologer now for three years. Astrology is a marvelous science and an infallible one, whereas clairvoyance is a gift and arrives at only problematical conclusions. For example, in August 1934, I had taken my son to Turckheim in the Vosges mountains. As I had nothing to do. except for walking, I set up Louis Barthou's horoscope-he was then Foreign Minister. As I was seting it up, I suddenly saw Uranus in the Gemini or 12th House. Why, I said to myself, there has been an attempt upon Barthou's life. As I knew...
...August 1915, prompted by an inquiry from the late James B. Forgan, president of Chicago's First National Bank, about the Government's attitude toward the flotation of a British loan in the U. S. to help pay for Allied purchases, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo wrote to President Wilson urging that permission be granted. Said he : "The high prices for food products have brought great prosperity to our farmers, while the purchases of war munitions have stimulated industry and have set factories going to full capacity throughout the great manufacturing districts, while the reduction of imports...
...school "because of an incident too scandalous to mention." Always Mother Hewitt had striven to break "certain unfortunate little habits" in Ann. A statement from the attending physician supported her assertion that Ann had been born two months prematurely, weighing only 3 1/2 lb., in the feverish Paris of August 1914, that only exceptional motherly care had kept her alive. How could she be accused of seeking her daughter's income after she had spent large sums to establish Ann's legitimacy in court when Father Hewitt's brothers and sisters contested his will? Furthermore, her daughter...
Died. Theodore August Metz, 87, violinist, minstrel, self-styled Father of the Jazz Era (see p. 30), composer of A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, which spurred Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War; in The Bronx...
...refrains from buying the Boston American to avoid such biased and stupid criticisms but it would seem that the spirits of Hearst and the Liberty League had entered even the august walls of Harvard and had prostituted the heretofore sane and unprejudiced editorial policy of the Crimson to their purposes...