Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Directors of the State Bank of Chicago, faced with the decision either to remain a parochial institution or to become a diocese, even a metropolitan power, decided last week. They chose Ralph Van Vechten (brother of Author Carl Van Vetchen) their president...
...Love") Macfadden's Graphic, in the nice art of tickling the palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted an ankle contest among chorus girls, and the Mirror hit upon the idea of a competition between other parts of girls' bodies. The Mirror delicately chose the lips; offered a $100 prize, and an understudy's job in a kissy revue, for "the prettiest lips in America." For convenience and popularity, it was explained that entrants might display their labial pulchritude by smearing their lips with rouge and pressing them upon slips of paper...
Director St. Gaudens announced that the Institute's annual international exhibit* of paintings would consist of work by artists invited to contribute anything they chose and not, as always heretofore, of canvases selected by a jury. The one big international exhibit in the U. S., in other words, was to be almost as free and spontaneous as the annual circus of the independent U. S. artists...
...many gentlemen had a way of saying to him, "I am dining 60 tomorrow," or "My daughter's dance will be on the 19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city. He was the son of a Vermont carpenter of French descent...
When the class of 1930 arrives to register on September 23, their Student Advisers will be assigned to them, but adviser and advisee will not meet until after classes begin the following Wednesday, September 29. Thus the advisers will have no part in aiding the Freshmen to chose their courses...