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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Family Loss. The homes, tools, livestock, furniture, etc., destroyed in Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, appeared to total somewhere between $7,000,000 and $10,000,000. (Figures for Massachusetts were not yet complete.) Secretary Hoover recommended that, as in the past, this phase of rehabilitation be left to the Red Cross...
Famed European players, Alexander Moissi, Lili Darvas, etc., seemed good in their parts, but never comparable to the sum of the whole. The wriggling darting Puck of Wladimir Sokolov was a vivid individual contribution. Rosamond Pinchot, discovered as an actress by Max Reinhardt for The Miracle, is the single native per former with a speaking part. She, like the rest, talks German...
...Coast, even in Texas. There are endless amateur and semi-amateur entanglements flung on the ice of evenings when the great professionals are idle. Earnest collegians play hockey for glory and varsity insignia (hockey has become a major sport along with football, baseball, rowing, running at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
...doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service, etc., etc. She is chief of the famed Herald-Tribune Institute. Five years ago she received each week at least 75 requests or information. Now she receives at least 1,000 such...