Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London. Just before the last session adjourned, each barrister was handed a card: "Clothing for Men on Shipboard-Day, sports or lounge; evening, tuxedo, light overcoat...
...Coolidge celebrated his birthday by delivering an address to the National Education Association (see EDUCATION), receiving 45,000 congratulatory messages, including a birthday card an inch thick and signed by 20,000 Massachusetts men, and several bedfuls of flowers. That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening...
...Original, it must be added, with Mr. David Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie also. And Mr. Cromartie had himself exhibited in a cage in the Royal Zoological Gardens, London, with this card on it: 'Homo Sapiens, MAN. This specimen, born in Scotland, was presented to the Society by John Cromartie, Esq. Visitors are requested not to irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press agent, if such...
...young man, indicated by the arrow, put there so that you may identify him, is W. R. Hearst, Jr., learning something about his father's newspaper business in the pressroom and, as the rules require, working with a union card in his pocket...
...world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered too. The Germans still hold one trump card in African colonization-Bayer 205. This drug, discovered by the same laborious research that produced Salvarsan, is apparently a certain cure for the terrible "sleeping sickness," and as such may make huge areas in Africa habitable. The Germans keep the secret of this drug very well, and intend...