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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only time in his life, permitted himself to be engaged in conversation by a man to whom he had never been introduced, thus winning fame as "the first man to interview Parnell." He was 65 when he married Mr. Astor's wife (Ava Willing, Philadelphia). No children were born. One of the two fine sons of his earlier marriage was killed in Somaliland, one in Gallipoli. His title dies with...
...standing be appointed by the Bishop, the health officer and the President of the Medical Association of each community, to certify to the physical and mental health of all persons before their marriage by the Church. He said that such action would reduce the number of divorces, of children born blind, of morons, of criminals...
Professor Francke, who was born in Kiel Germany, 70 years ago came to Harvard as an instructor of German in 1884. Three years later he was made Assistant Professor of German, and in 1896 became Professor of the History of German Culture. In 1902 he was appointed Curator of the Germanic Museum and since 1917, when he was made Professor Emeritus, he became Honorary Curator...
...communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...