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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Secretary & Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. Legation at Berne, Switzerland; a daughter, Edith Alice Pierrepont. Mrs. Moffat is the daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. ambassador to Turkey...
Like Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review, its ancient rivals, the Edinburgh Review matured, grew old, sedate. Last week its editors sadly confessed: "Modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year for observations on life, letters, history and society." They announced the Review's demise...
Slightly outplayed by a Princeton team that was guilty of stupid penalties and unable to kick goals after touchdowns, Brown got better as it grew wearier and edged out the game...
During the next dozen years Argentina's name grew big in Europe and again last year she was persuaded to come to the U. S., ostensibly for her debut. This time managerial circumstances were different and she herself had grown artistically. She became a sensation...
When Henry VIII died, Elizabeth, 13, continued living with his widow, Katherine Parr, even after the latter had married Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine and Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence...