Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following 22 men were elected to the Society from the Senior class: Carl Oscar Emamiel Anderson, Prescott Niles Arnold, Dana Converse Backus, Thomas Senior Berry, Gordon Marsh Benedict, Melvin Irving Bernstein, Dwight Wesley Chapman, Jr., David Luther Dickson, Warren Fosket Fair, Stanley Turner Frame, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Allan Holske, John Denisor: Houghton, Judah Isaacs, Lester Snow King, Glenn Allen Millikan, Charles Platt Jr. John Robert Richardson, Robert Thornton Smith, Abraham Harold Swirske, Henry Franklin Williams and Charles Edward Wyzanski...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
Mark Morton, Chicago magnate (salt, sugar): "Like President John T. Dorrance of Campbell soups (TIME, Nov. 8), I too have a daughter, Jane, who enjoys business. When she completed her school courses at Miss Chamberlain's in Boston, she went to selling motor cars for a living. She proved so excellent a saleswoman that last week the Stutz Chicago factory branch put her in their customs body department, where she will possibly earn $50,000 yearly. She also operates an antique shop; loves horses, sports...
...Discussed in secret the secretly presented report on foreign affairs of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. The report is persistently rumored to contain an allusion to the alleged intention of France to transfer to Italy her troublesome League Mandate in Syria-Italy then to abstain from all interference with French interests in Morocco...
Soon afterward, His Holiness married his niece, Louise Ratti, to Marquis Eduardo Persichetti, Secretary to the Nicaraguan legation to the Vatican, onetime Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword under Popes Benedict XV and the present Pius. Marriages officiated by the Pope are very rare. His Holiness presented the bride with four artistic bookcases, each containing 25 volumes, which he had selected himself, pertaining to the duties of a Christian wife and mother. After the nuptials, His Holiness delivered an address, in which he deplored modern laxity in customs and dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were...