Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Chicagoans were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken...
...this admission Northwestern University students guffawed. Aroused Chicagoans decided to nail the canard by finding and proclaiming Chicago's prettiest girl. Last week, after pondering many pictures from a photographer's files, the three judges assigned to the job picked an indubitable stunner, Joy Hawley. Too late they discovered that Miss Hawley's picture had slipped in by mistake, that she was a Northwestern girl, queen of that university's Navy Ball...
...bird sanctuary, left to the University by the late Dr. Robert Ridgway, for 49 years curator of birds in the U. S. National Museum...
...current spate of scientific meetings is like a late spring housecleaning which gives theorists and experimenters a chance to clear their research shelves toward the close of an academic year. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week the X-particle, newest and queerest of physics' collection of atomic particles, which weighs much more than an electron but much less than a proton (TIME, Nov. 29). came in for a good deal of housewifely attention...
Married. Grand Duchess Kyra Kirillovna of the Romanoffs, 29, younger daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; and Prince Louis Ferdinand of the Hohenzollerns, 30, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; in Potsdam, Germany...