Word: buddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Widow of the late Senator Medill McCormick, she, aged 47, has lived and breathed politics since she was old enough to realize that her father, the late Mark Hanna, was a very important man. When Mark Hanna was in the U. S. Senate, she, a smart bud, fresh from Dobbs Ferry and Farmington, was there too, at work in his office. She says: "If I wanted to dance until four o'clock in the morning, well and good, but I had to be in the office just the same at nine o'clock and be good-natured about...
Complete orientation is impossible in Boston because in the first place Boston is built on different lines and in the second place such a claim to fame would necessitate a personal knowledge of every bud on the glass flowers in Cambridge and an ability to cross Washington street without fear or trembling. The confident Freshman whose savoir-faire considerably outweighs his rational aculties may believe that a journey down the long white trek to Andrews Square or a nook in the attic of the Boston Opera House should entitle him to the keys of the city...
...might have seemed silly to Lena Wilson and James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., but for days before their wedding took place last week, newspaperdom was on hand at Grande Anse with questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null...
Frank R. Henderson, president. New York Rubber Exchange, last week accepted as fact a report of vast latex* production from rubber trees cultured in the Dutch East Indies. Buds of exceptional rubber trees had been grafted into trees that normally yielded but three or four pounds of rubber a year. After bud grafting the trees, by report, began to yield enormously, in some cases 100 pounds a year. At such report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks of the fairy tale. Trees...