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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sarcastically denounced the entire class as a "scholastic failure," more than hinting that none deserved diplomas. Irate, one C. L. Simpson, citizen, wrote to a local newspaper that for at least twelve years Principal Cully (21% years at his post) had "handed" each Glenville graduating class, instead of a bouquet a "generous dose of satirical scoring." Citizen Simpson suggested a new type of speech for Mr. Cully: "People, I am incompetent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Wyoming. Tears came to the eyes of Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross when state officials and employes presented her with a steamer trunk and a bouquet of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governors | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Warren for Attorney General. A cartoon of Mr. Dawes, to be used in case of his absence. Two dolls, "Helen" and "Maria." A steel-shafted driver, a duplicate of the one which Mr. Dawes frequently borrows from his golfing mate, Col. Edwin A. Halsey. A bouquet for Mrs. Dawes, who smiled happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...bouquet for Mrs. Dawes, who smiled happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this fruit of his return, for it is culled as is the bouquet of a child, with too much of this and not enough...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon, | Title: Verse With a Character All its Own | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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