Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Correcto," said the watchman, "but the ghosts in Dolores go 'swish-swish,' never 'woof-woof,' therefore I shoot...
...peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American combination. But U. S. play-goers who have seen Walter Hampden act the Parisian smash of 1897, Edmond Rostand's lyrical Cyrano de Bergerac, have gained an inkling of what 17th Century France was like. For swaggering, fork-tongued Gascon...
...Go to the great man's house. Present the salesman's business card for identification. Ask for and receive the rings. Disappear...
...Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars. . . . All you have to do is just go up and slap him on the back and tell him just what you want." In an expansive mood, Alumnus Rockefeller accepted the position of counsel for the defense of a fellow alumnus nine college years his senior-Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, who lately resigned as President of Colgate-Rochester Divinity...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...