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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of one of President Woodrow Wilson's favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...American Magazine for November reported the discovery, through geography and statistics, of "the average American citizen." The man was one Roy Lewis Gray, clothing merchant, of Fort Madison, Iowa, native born, aged 43, not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, not bald, not dark, not light, not Wet, not a Dry, with a wife, son, daughter, pipe, radio, three-year-old automobile. Average Mr. Gray visited Chicago last week. There he bought a picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal...
...Born 1765 at Westboro, Mass.; educated at Yale College; died 1825 at New Haven where he manufactured fire arms...
...nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt with the theatre. Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., he lives in Manhattan...
...other hand, the more radical and "modern" type of young writer should not necessarily be deprived of an outlet for what may sometimes seem his hectic enough wares. It is possible that, as Mr. Edmonds suggests, the Hound and Born will die when those men now running the publication have lost interest in it If that should be the case it is to be hoped that another journal of similar nature will be born to take its place. The Advocate, if it pursues its present policy of a liberal conservatism, will ably care for the less volatile aspirants to literary...