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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publius Vergilius Maro, "greatest Roman poet," author of the Aeneid, was born, strictly speaking, not at Mantua, but on a farm nearby...
...Milan last week the Fascist censor passed a despatch saying that a fourth child will be born to Donna Mussolini in late September, will be named "Romano" if a boy, "Romana" if a girl...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
...Born. To Mrs. & Rev. Tertius van Dyke, son of Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke (famed author, onetime Princeton professor, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg); a son, at Washington, Conn...
Last week a ship set out from England, bearing to the U. S. that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma...