Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As custom requires, Vice President Charles Curtis gave a Christmas dinner last week to the 19 Senate pages (age 12 to 16) in the Capitol restaurant.* Likewise as custom requires, the pages gave the Vice President a Christmas present. Page Philip J. ("Peewee") Bassford passed to Vice President Curtis an...
Contrary to custom, Vice President Curtis did not make to his young guests a long inspirational speech about "getting on in the world." Instead Page Laureston Porter read a poem to the Vice President, the composite work of all the pages, entitled: "The Pages' Christmas Dinner." Excerpts:
A page may work, but prefers to play, And his greatest joy is three meals a day, So when Marshall invited the pages to dine Not one of the boys was heard to decline. . . . This fine innovation was given each year, As long as Tom Marshall remained with us here...
* Vice President Curtis was again given 1931 District of Columbia automobile license No. 111 in which he fancies symbolizes his 1928 victory ("won, won, won").
Battle Stories (132,000) and Screen Secrets (140,000) came in 1926. The latter began as Paris & Hollywood, consisting of pictures of females. Next month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly...