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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, may I point out an inaccuracy which may cause embarrassment to those of your distinguished readers, who, having read this article, should expect to see the late Jean Philippe Worth when they visit the House of Worth on the Rue de la Paix...
Stephen Vincent Benet, U. S. poet and novelist, arrived in the second class cabin of the Ile de France, delighted with the heavy sales of his 80,000-word cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
Ambassador Houghton, Postum-tycoon Hutton, Pastor Cadman left on the Homeric; on the lle de France went the U. S. Secretary of State...
Such an accident disabled two of the four turbines of the Ile de France, in the harbor of Havre last Fall; and she did not sail again until Spring. But, in the words of the goaded French Line: "Various giant liners, of various lines, have suffered this unavoidable misfortune. ... It is to be hoped that there will soon be an end to the unauthentic . . . unwarranted . . . utterly false . . . rumors . . . now coming, we presume, from sources interested in undermining the position of our new flagship. . . . The turbines of the Ile de France were built in England by the most famous manufacturers...
Final vindication of the Ile de France as a safe ship came, last week, when she was boarded by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, whose famed nickname is "Nervous Nelly." At the pier, he exhibited a nervous indecision between taking an elevator to the embarking platform or climbing up the stairs. Finally he climbed. Both Secretary & Mrs. Kellogg not only admonished their porters to be careful but kept a watchful eye upon them, lest they jerk off a worn trunk handle or dent a new suitcase. But Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg did board the Ile de France, and settled down...