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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with precision, more than a dozen forms of greeting among them. For example: to handshaker No. 1 he will say, "How do you do?"; to No. 2, "It is good to see you"; to No. 3, "I hope you will like Washington" . . . to No. 13, "How do you do?" etc. Last week he received 600 women, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (see p. 11) ; but declined to receive a group from the North Carolina College for Women, "because of the exceptional pressure of official duties...
...allowance of fury that enabled them to trounce Harvard 12-0. We can't vouch for the accuracy of the story, or for the alleged consequences, if the story is true, but you may remember that virtually all the penalties in the game--for holding, for off-side play, etc., etc.--were imposed on Princeton...
...Daily Mail (Conservative), Daily Mirror (Independent), Eveniff News (Independent), etc...
Editors and publishers of the women's press, (Harper's Bazar, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) bit their nails and stamped their feet. Again they had been done in by Condé* Nast, sleek publisher of Vogue. Especially must it have pained Vogue's glossy rival, Harper's Bazar (a Hearst product), to learn that Mr. Nast, than whose technique for commingling business with social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department...
...render the service to society I mentioned a few minutes ago. Some go to be prepared to earn a better living, some for social prestige, some to make the contacts that will be of service to them in life after the college, some to have a good time, etc. May I draw your attention to the fact that the men who are trying to steer the new democratic republic in Germany are Dr. Stresemann, Dr. Wirth, Dr. Luther, men of the gymnasium and university, men of the higher education. The same is true of France and Great Britain...