Word: filles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Belloc, Catholic historian-essayist, is not satirizing mystery stories; he is having a happy holiday. Only an Englishman can fill so many pages with a simple story and have so much fun doing it. The 25 illustrations by G. K. Chesterton suggest what Bud Fisher might have scribbled at the age of eight; are amusing...
...appointments in the Senior class organization were announced yesterday by W. G. Saltonstall, first marshal of the Class of 1928. Hamilton Heard '28 of Brookline has been selected as chairman of the Class Day Committee to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of C. A. Pratt...
...specialized in book sales; the American Galleries, which was started in the early 80's and thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall...
...certainly the sovereign states of the U. S. have matters of more permanent value than dithyrambs. Texas has. What does it do with them? It puts them into a new magazine called Bunker's Monthly, 160 pages of eye-easy type. Does Vermont (native state of Calvin Coolidge) fill as many pages each month with readable material of its own efforts? No. Does Iowa (home state of Average American Citizen Roy Lewis Gray) do as well...
...announcement of the list of sixteen nominees, from which number six will be chosen this spring to fill the vacancies that fall open this year, is an enlightening commentary upon the nature and powers of the body. The names finally selected by the nominating committee from a long list of suggestions include a remarkable diversity of professions and occupations. In the list are six lawyers, two merchants, a banker, a manufacturer, a doctor, an author, an educator, one prominent in social service, one in public affairs, one in the real estate business. It would be difficult to imagine a list...