Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With him was Mrs. Stimson, quiet, self-effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...
...They have developed such a dangerous craving for liquor that there is a prohibition against selling it to them. In fact, about the only way in which civilization has helped them is that the Belgium government has wiped out the ancient bloody tribal wars which once roared through the land...
Archbishop of Canterbury, made known that he will visit the Holy Land next month; also Athens, to see Mgr. Chrysostom Papadopoulos, Metropolitan of the Greek Church. Dr. Lang will travel on the Corsair, 304 ft. yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan...
...Berlin apartment (No. 5 Haberlandstrasse) was deluged with gifts and messages. The gifts included a house from the City of Berlin, an honorary degree from the University of Paris, a promise that his bust will be placed in the tower of Potsdam, an announcement by U.S. Zionists that land will be acquired near Jerusalem for the planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers...
Today, at about 46, he is "a mass of nerves and a bundle of nerve." He wants a good rest. But acres of undeveloped land, undrilled, remain his. They may beckon...