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...unanimously approved the formation of Accredited Hatcheries, unanimously authorized their officers to eliminate dishonest chick advertising, watched baby chick motion pictures at a baby chick dinner, took bus rides, danced, bathed, presented their retiring President, Prof. Harry R. Lewis, with a handsome watch and Mrs. Lewis with an enormous bouquet, voted to hold their tenth convention at Atlantic City...
...Ambassador, and his wife and her mother, Mrs. Marchand, were greeted on the station platform by Premier Kiyoura, Foreign Minister Baron Matsui and numerous Government and diplomatic politicians of note. Baroness Matsui presented a large bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Woods. Thousands of Japanese made the station tremble with their "banzais" and at one period the enthusiasm of the crowd was such that they broke the police cordons. It was a magnificent, friendly sendoff...
Lilac, oriental bouquet, jasmine, French bouquet, violet, rose. That is the order in which women prefer perfumes, according to tests made on 200 girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...
...candidate as to the influence of The New York World in the Democratic Party, and the energy expended by Herbert Bayard Swope, that paper's executive editor, who started out some months ago to take the convention to New York and has done so." New York Tribune: "An additional bouquet belongs to The New York World, which originated the proposal to bring the convention to New York and led the fight in its behalf." The New York Times: "Chief credit for bringing the National Democratic Convention to this city goes of right to The New York World...
...Queen, dressed entirely in white relieved only by a bouquet of mauve orchids, was accompanied by her consort, Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, drove through The Hague, was welcomed by choral bodies singing the Wilhelmus, and civic, naval and military assemblies. Long and loud were the cheers ot "God save the Queen!" Little Princess Juliana, Holland's future Queen, also received a tremendous ovation from the people. The enthusiasm displayed was said to be rare in Holland. At night the city was a "fairyland of colored lights."; The festivities lasted until Sept...