Word: baird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Kathleen Howard, famed contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, from Lawyer K. Baird, onetime associate with Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Frank A. Vanderlip, Alvin W. Krech, in the short-lived Century Opera Company; in Manhattan...
...following is the list of those elected to the acting department: Greeley Stevenson Curtis '28 of Cambridge, Donald Fay Dunne '28 of Somerville, William Burton Wilson '26 of Portland, Maine, Ralph Nye '27 of Ogden, Utah, Baird Luther Dickson '27 of Lakewood, Ohio; to the property department: Donald Fay Robinson '26 of Wilmington, Delaware...
...However, there had 'been a foul. The English protested. The U. S. bowed. Another race was sailed. England won handily. Points : England, 108 1/4 ; U. S., 107. Having won last year on the Solent, the English were entitled to permanent possession of the Challenge Cup. Lady Baird of the invaders donated a 200-year-old silver tankard for future races...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer; Constance, Lady Baird, and Sir Thomas Glen-Coats with the 4 six-metre British yachts to compete for the British-America cup in the International Yacht Race at Oyster...
...Chamber of the House, the joft murmurs grew to audible agitation. Thomas Johnston, Laborite, asked by whose authority the picture had been hung. The Right Hon. F. W. Jowett, First Commissioner of Works, answered that permission to hang the picture was given by his Conservative predecessor, Sir John Baird. He assured the House that its present position could not be regarded as permanent and that members would be given an opportunity to express their approval or 'disapproval before a final decision was reached. Considerable commotion was provoked by these statements-some M.P.'s championing Lady Astor, others openly...