Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Thousands of questions by hundreds of reporters" (his own phrase) followed the President's son wherever he went. They kept asking about Florence Trumbull and an engagement. . . . The S. S. Lapland docked in Manhattan but John did not go to meet it. His absence from the pier won $1.50...
Getting nominated for Congress-and elected-is different from Aldermanic campaigns in Manhattan. Mrs. Pratt's opponent, Phelps Phelps, is experienced and determined. Politics is a passion with him. He is a sort of Republican Tammanyite who spends all but a fragment of the $70,000 per annum or...
After thoroughly "covering" East Africa the Princes will proceed to South Africa and spend Christmas in Cape Town with their austere, not very popular uncle the Earl of Athlone, brother to Her Majesty Queen Mary, and Governor General of the Union of South Africa.
Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists...
Died. Captain William Rule, 89, oldest active editor in the U. S., founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti...