Word: duns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, of the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition in London. The pictures were of that conventional, familiar stripe which appeals to all well-bred Englishmen. But when Eagless Margot Asquith, who always enjoys her own idiosyncrasies, appeared in a cubistic gown of black and white chiffon, many a dun-clad dowager began sputtering to her companions. The newspapers talked about...
...Gothic only to depart from it in a magical Goodhue Gothic. Finally, so strongly did he feel the Gothic spirit of perpetual growth, he grew out of the Gothic style, out of all archaism and raised on the Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style it is mysterious-something of vanished Assyrian strongholds; something of Byzantine vaults, domes and mosaic ornament; something of simple Mayan massiveness. Perhaps the style is best called Nebraskan. The history
Married. Evalyn Dun Douglass, granddaughter of Robert Dun Douglass, chairman of the board of trustees of R. G. Dun & Co., Manhattan credit raters and statisticians; to Edward Gardner Prime of Yonkers, N. Y., in Manhattan...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
Speeding north by train and motor car to Dehra Dun, His Excellency began to "rest" by setting out from there on horseback into the jungle covered foothills of the Himalayas, mightiest of mountains...