Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mrs. Hoover's absence left Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, half-sister of the Vice President, in undisputed command of Washington's official society. But buxom Mrs. Gann was unable to take full advantage of her position as acting First Lady because of a pesky cold that kept her...
Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer...
Professor C. C. Zimmerman, who returned this fall from an extensive governmental survey of agricultural conditions in Siam, will give Sociology 8 and 13 on "Rural Sociology", and "Sociology and the Family". Sociology 1 will be conducted exclusively by Professor Sorokin next year while Professor L. J. Henderson '98 will...
Bobbing. Most elaborate addition to the Lake Placid plant was the $250,000, mile-and-a-half bob-sled run down the side of Mt. Van Hoevenberg. In the two man bob-sled (boblet) races, the best Europeans were a 20-year-old Swiss sophomore at Zurich University, Reto Capadrutt...
Birthdays. Dr. Francis Landey Patton, Princeton's onetime president and "Grand Old Man" (89); Wilhelm Hohenzollern (73) ; Vice President Charles Curtis (72) ; Walter Johannes Damrosch (70); Baritone Antonio Scotti (65); Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (50).