Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Whistling Vipers, a Madagascar moon-faced monkey, a Mandalayan singing lizard-members of an immigrating menagerie-arrived in Manhattan on the Hamburg, as did Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Thompson, famed newspaper correspondent.
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, 100, flower girl in 1838 at the coronation of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria; in Newkirk, Wales.
The trout season neared its close in Wisconsin. President Coolidge learned that trout feed by night as hungrily as in the daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train...
On a rainy day at Brule, the President shot a shotgun at sailing clay pigeons and had the satisfaction of seeing 24 out of 25 break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped...
At a meeting of the School Board, J. Lewis Coath, its former president and the arch-enemy of William McAndrew, unexpectedly argued against the new textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools...