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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death by falling from great heights is pleasant-provided the smash-up at earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...revolver barked, the audience laughed, in the wings a girl screamed, her clothes afire. She, one Ellen Delmour, 21, "burleycue" chorine, was standing too close to the revolver whence came the report. A spark lit her flimsy dress. Her burns hurt, will not kill...
...President Coolidge received the first "buddy poppy," inaugurating the pre-Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother...
Into the darkened Manhattan dining room where 700 bigwigs of finance, industry and commerce were dining last week, went a procession of servants bearing on platters before them, not boars' heads nor puddings blazing with brandy, but great candied cakes, each lit by 25 candles. It was a symbolic procession to mark, as the banquet and its other sequences marked, the completion of 25 years' service to the New York community by the Bankers Trust Company...
...York, N. J., at a rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury...