Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Andrew Latham Smith, 43, famed football coach at the University of California; at Philadelphia, of pulmonary ulcers. From 1920 to 1924 inclusive his "Golden Bears" lost no games. In 1904 he was All-American fullback (University of Pennsylvania).
Home Affairs. Premier Aristide Briand loitered about the lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies. He loitered only, in the sense that for hours each day he did not go anywhere else. He exhibited his flamboyance in a daring campaign to spellbind the Deputies by his personal magnetism into a belief...
Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is...
B. C. Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight ago.
Rodman Wanamaker bought four Stradivarius violins, "Conte La Chesnaie" (1687), "Dancla" (1710), "Joachim" (1723), and that consummately powerful and resonant violin which is called "The Swan" because it is the last one the master-carver made before he died. It bears the inscription, "In My Ninety-Third Year." Mr. Wanamaker...