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Today Elkdom enumerates 1,476 Lodges, a membership of 839,422, assets of $75,649,618.42. Last year Elks expended $2,432,641.50 in charity. Aged and indigent Elks may take refuge at the Elk home, Bedford, Va. Say all Elks: "An Elk is never forgotten, never forsaken...
...soon as the Vestry had accepted his resignation, Dr. Grant sprang into a taxi and rushed off to the Grand Central Station, accompanied by an unidentified grey-haired woman. He was discovered that evening at Beaver Lodge in Bedford Village, N. Y. For three years the rector had been publicly engaged to Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, captivating gentle woman, in her late forties. Mrs. Lydig married W. E. D. Stokes in 1895 when she was only 16. Divorcing him later, she married a gallant officer, Major Philip M. Lydig, divorced him in Paris in 1919 for incompatibility. Because...
John Galsworthy, famed British novelist: "In an address at Bedford College, London, I defended the use of slang, declared it to be 'vigorous and apt.' Said I: 'Probably most of our vital words were slang once. . . . I am waiting now to see "gets my goat" academized by Professor Saintsbury...
...list of next year's officers reads as follows" President, Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 of New Bedford; vice-president, James Leland Combs of Long Beach, California; secretary, Waldo Chamberlain Sprague '25 of Wollaston; treasurer, Albert Leonard Best 3E. S. of Evanston, Illinois; manager, Robert Paul Eckert Jr. '25 of Freeport, Illinois...
...like Mr. Coolidge, was in days gone by a protege of the late Senator Winthrop Murray Crane. Both have quiet unostentatious ways of doing things, both can spare words, both have a certain primitive honesty. Butler, now gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of an old New Bedford family. At 16 he was at work in a New Bedford shoe factory. Later he went away from New Bed- ford to go into law and politics. Now he runs, on the side, a few cotton mills in New Bedford...