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...Grand Canyon and . . . "There are two things one should see on a trip West," a Boston Unitarian toastmaster once declared: "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." Mrs. Reinhardt this year celebrated Mills's goth anniversary and her 26th as its president by announcing her retirement. Mills's alarmed trustees prevailed on her to stay at least until 1943-A native San Franciscan (her father sailed around the Horn and her mother arrived from Ohio on horseback), Mrs. Reinhardt took over Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school...
Years ago Pir of Pagaro got angry at a boy favorite, Ibrahim, of his court at Pir-Jo-Goth. Pir had Ibrahim's eyelashes and eyebrows plucked out, his face blackened with soot, and padlocked him in a box which was opened only when he was fed. Ibrahim escaped, only to be hunted with hounds and imprisoned again in a smaller box. Finally three concubines told the police about Ibrahim. The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat...
...Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans for their legions, and the leader of one of these fifth columns, Odovacar the Goth, overthrew the Roman Empire...
Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...
...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...