Word: buren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posts. In their order of importance the leading embassies are usually rated as London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome. The post at London as well as being the most important has also the greatest historical interest, for it has been occupied by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and, in more recent years, by Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, Walter Hines Page, John W. Davis. Now a successor to these men must be chosen, as well as an Ambassador to Rome...
...would start a regular around-the-world passenger service. The " 502's " are 502-ft. steamers, with a gross register of 10,533 tons, with a speed of about 14 knots, oil burners and all " President" ships. They are the Presidents Polk, Adams, Van Buren, Monroe, Garfield, Hayes, Harrison. The five first are now plying between New York and London, a money-losing route, and will be supplanted by freight vessels as soon as the Summer tourist season is past. The two last are plying between the Pacific Coast and the east coast of South America...
...must not be thought that the play is all plotting and shooting and stabbing. There are some most enjoyable comedy touches in the scene in the third act between the newly-weds, Ruth, played by Alma Tell, and Bill Elliott, played by A. H. Van Buren. Among other amusing line comes Bill's observation that "The way girls talk nowadays modest men ought to wear a veil...
Howard Chandler Christy, commissioned recently to paint the portrait of President Harding has been asked to paint the portraits of six other Presidents of the United States: the two Adams, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Garfield. These portraits will hang in the salons of the "President Fleet" of the United States Shipping Board-which will carry Mr. Christy's fame even farther than American magazines have carried it already...