Word: garrette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snappiest, most widely printed anecdote of the year about Signore Benito Mussolini was the tale of how he was recently "enticed" to the U. S. Embassy for tea by Mrs. John Work Garrett, greeted by Ambassador Garrett carrying a loaded pistol to protect the Dictator's life...
Under "potted palms" lurked Embassy secretaries "similarly armed." All the Ambassador's Italian servants "except his trusted butler" had been given the afternoon off, lest one of them assassinate Il Duce. To the Ambassador and Mrs. Garrett a friend sent humorous congratulations (for the point of the story was supposed to be that Il Duce had never before humored an Embassy hostess by a tea call). Came from Rome last week this cabled reply: EXCEPT FOR REVOLVERS RISKS SERVANTS SECRETARIES POTTED PALMS CORNERS AND SIX-SHOOTERS THE ARTICLE IS A TISSUE OF TRUTH STOP MERRY CHRISTMAS. JOHN AND ALICE...
...figure was swelled by returns from smoking tobacco including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered it dissolved. As is true of American Tobacco, its chief competitors were once part...
Seventeen students in Harvard College, who attained places in Group I of the Rank List, were awarded Honorary John Harvard Scholarships, without stipend, for the current year, as follows: L. E. Becker '32, Tonawanda, N. Y.; Garrett Birkhoff '32, Cambridge; R. P. Boas, Jr. '33, Norton; J. C. Campbell '33, Bronxville, N. Y.; E. D. Chapple '31, Salem; A. C. England, Jr. '33, Pittsfield; L. T. Furth '31, St. Louis, Mo.; Frank Gilchrist '32, Wilmette, Ill.; W. A. Huppuch '33, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Richard Inglis '33. So, Euclid, O.; D. D. Lloyd '31, Plainfield, N. J.; E. L. Popper...
...crowned the young artists with laurel, forecast shining future:. Singer Gluck created a fund to aid them, received contributions from Manhattan's music-loving Warburgs, Kahns, Guggenheimers, Lewisohns. Thus blessed they went forth as the Musical Art Quartet, and for four seasons have passed from fame to fame. The Garrett tour will be their first trip abroad as a unit...