Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis--"American Born...
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...tall erect young man was smitten both with love and with a consciousness of his inferiority; he was only Prince Philip of Hesse. The slight brown-eyed girl, likewise swept into love by the fatal attraction of opposites, be-shrewed daintily the day that she was born Mafalda, Princess of Italy, and resolved to wheedle King Vittorio Emanuele into letting here stoop to her tall lover...
Often the "shark's" name is Cohen, or Levi, or Weinstein. In Princeton '23 his name was Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
...Born. To Mrs. Robert Littell of New York (the onetime Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter) a son, one of whose grandfathers was James G. Blaine, famed Secretary of State, and two of whose great-grandfathers were Eliakim Littell, founder of The Living Age, and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, founder of the Oratorio Society and introducer of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House; at Bar Harbor...