Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Helen Train, daughter of Author Arthur Cheney Train (Mr. Tutt stories) of Manhattan & Bar Harbor; to Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of the potent New York State Republican...
...Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English or Dutch gin as a favorite cocktail ingredient. Today one may step up to any smart bar and obtain deft action by exclaiming "A Ponce!" Strangely enough Jean Hennessy swears that he has never tasted one. Wet by profession, he is socially and privately dry. In 1910 he became a Deputy, in 1924 Ambassador to Switzerland and recently Minister of Agriculture...
...collection includes paintings of two Harvard men, famed as advocates in colonial times: Jeremiah Gridley, of the class of 1725, often called the "father of the Boston bar," and Benjamin Pratt, of the class of 1737, an eminent Boston lawyer and later chief justice of New York State. These two men were painted by Thomas Swibert of Boston, a famed American painter, ranked next to Copley in importance by many authorities on colonial artists...
Seaton Pippin, a seven-year-old bay mare owned by Paul Moore, won every event in which she entered, taking nine prizes altogether. Jean Regan rode The Flirt over ten jumps without touching the top-bar on any one. Seventy thousand people, more than had ever done so before, attended the horse show; one of them was Senor Aime F. Tschiffely, who three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky...
...Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...