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...Flier Clarence Duncan Chamberlin is not the cinema type, as reported, Miss Ruth Elder apparently is. The New York-to-Atlantic Ocean flier was besought by Florenz Ziegfeld last week to play the part of the American girl in his motion picture to glorify that young lady...
...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
...however, at least temporarily, restrained from making a stage appearance by the City Council of Vienna which delayed and temporized when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy...
George William Goethals, son of a Dutch emigrant, attracted the roving notice of a Manhattan public school teacher. This percipient pedagogue besought a politician, and presently George W. Goethals was registered at West Point. A harassed and instinctively American registrar concluded that anyone inscribed as George W. must have been baptised George Washington. Hence an able Dutchman was graduated, second in his class, George Washington Goethals, and lived to become the second most eminent George Washington of the U. S. Army...
Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, wanted the graduate school, which was originally called "Merwick" in the English fashion, to be a component part of the university. Dean West besought the trustees to establish it as an independent institution. Dean West won, so far as the location of the school was concerned. Cleveland Tower stands on an eminence half a mile from Nassau Hall. But the name "Merwick" was dropped and the Princeton Graduate School is subject today to the faculty, trustees and president of Princeton University...