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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Weil Eiseman '30 of Boston was elected to lead the Mandolin Club, while George Wright Briggs of Taunton, will head the Banjo Club. C. M. Under-hill '30 was reelected to the post of Vocal Club leader while B. D. Hanighen '30 will take up the leader's baton before the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...HARDING Boston Square and Compass Club, Boston, Mass...
President Arthur, "the dilettante mid-Victorian, the ornament of New York club life, draped hangings of pomegranate plush over windows and mantels, built a partition of colored glass across the entrance hall, caused potted palms to spring from the red plush carpets and otherwise strove to reproduce in the interior the funereal effects that prevailed in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers of the period...
...seal the investiture, The Players unanimously elected him in October 1927 to succeed "Uncle John" as their president. And last fortnight another seal was added when Manhattan's Lotos Club hailed Actor Hampden as guest of honor and made speeches about...
Since 1870, the Lotos Club has considered itself and been considered authoritatively epicurean in personalities as well as gastronomies. Paderewski and Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mary Garden and Andrew William Mellon, are some of the figures who have been honored, variously, with its cocktails, terrapin and oratory. The senior Oliver Wendell Holmes attended in 1883 and punned for the lotophagi six times in one hour...