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...Marquis de Bardelys, Favorite To His Majesty King Louis XIII, Wooed The Fair Lady Roxalanne de Lavedan On A Wager, And Won Her By True Love; And Also An Account Of How The Aforementioned Marquis de Bardelys Involved Himself In Sundry Cruel Mishaps The While Intent Upon His Naughty Errand, And Near Came By Losing His Young Head...
...inches, a depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left for Plattsburg, N. Y., where he made a speech on disarmament, said...
Thinly disguised as an emissary of the English-Speaking Union, there has traveled through the U. S. of late weeks a small Semite, suavely overlaid with English polish, whose errand is to tell Americans about the staunch idealism of the British Conservative party. His modest, earnest accents have purred out over eager women's club audiences, Daughters of the British Empire, gatherings of journalists and at various hours and wave lengths of radio...
...current civilization conceives women in business as mere factotums. Yet this woman-she is Mary E. Dillon, in her middle thirties-spent 23 years of apprenticeship with the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., which she now heads. A girl just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their...
Much resembling the late Sir William Osier in his combination of the highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...