Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Mrs. Max Mason, wife of the onetime (1925-28) president of the University of Chicago, who resigned in May to join the board of the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, May 21); of bronchial pneumonia; in Madison...
...playful goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo...
...crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
Ambassador (Col.) Noble Brandon Judah, home from Cuba's heat, called last fortnight on Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall, Chief of Staff, and arranged to join his old regiment, the 332nd Field Artillery,* in camp at Sparta...
...possible that Thomas Whelpley experienced the episodes which he described. But to many a newspaperman it seemed clear that in the present debauch of "ghostwriting" a depraved press had gone so far as to persuade a preacher to join the ranks of sporting characters and society women who lie for money...