Word: clio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor of Nassau Hall, fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one year younger, held positions of social importance on the campus. Undergraduate lassitude caused them to merge into one Hall last year. But many an oldtime Whig and Clio debater has made good in after life as a pedagog or politician. Two U. S. Presidents, five presidents of Princeton, were Whigs. One night last week Whig observed its 160th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the graduation of a member who was both a Princeton and a U. S. President -Thomas Woodrow...
...category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
Charles A. Whelan, President of the United Cigar Stores Co. of America: "My daughter Clara, mother of five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...next Prophezzor also a disciple of Clio denied the first outright: "My aim is to get these young men to view the world in the large. I train them to follow trends, to trace movements, to see universals. If you hold a coin near enough to your eye, it will blot out the sun. Perspective is the word Perspective...
...Died.-Clio Hinlon Bracken, 55, sculptress; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Pupil of Rodin, MacMonnies, St. Gaudens, she exhibited first in the Paris Salon. At 20, she received $10,000 for her statue of General Fremont, sold to an association of California pioneers. Her first husband was the late James Gibbons Huneker...