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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rapid City became, suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled...
...ceremony of donating the memorial volume was attended with usual pomp. In the Salon of Letters, Arts and Sciences in the Hotel de Ville a distinguished group of political, industrial, artistic luminaries stood stiffly at attention as a band blared "God Save the King" and the "Marseillaise," after which the Golden Book was presented to Sir Austen by Louis Delsol. President of the Paris Municipal Council, with these words...
Miss Anderson had become engaged to one Frederick Boehme, Stockton (Calif.) schoolteacher, a member of the U. S. student group attending the summer lectures. He stayed by the side of his fiancee until she died next day. Thus was a romance cut short and thus died the third U. S. citizen to be killed by Mexican bandits within the past two years. Fifteen others were killed or wounded in the attack, none of them U. S. citizens...
...English polo, had a private argument. Polo at that time was unnoticed in the U. S. A handful of sportsmen, including Thomas Hitchcock Sr., "picked up a team" and were soundly trounced by the better trained and better mounted Britons. For 14 years polo continued unnoticed. In 1900 a group of U. S. citizens residing abroad picked up a team and played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia was formally exported, won the first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne...
...entertaining and understandable from cover to cover. ("We cannot promise you George Bernard Shaw every week but we do promise you a group of contributors who have mastered not only music but the English language and an editorial staff that knows how to make a magazine look interesting as well...