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Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen...
...escape such destruction, an Argentine locust could wing his way to the U. S., he would there find less wheat to eat than at any time in 50 years. If he crossed the Atlantic to Europe he would see slim pickings in the seared fields of France or by the banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost...
...known as a driver. After the U. S. entered the War he became one of Bernard Baruch's big right hands in getting U. S. War supplies, and later Assistant Secretary of War. When he died in 1925, he left a widow with a "show place" at Locust Valley, L. I., two daughters, one of them Mrs. Juan Trippe (Pan American Airways), and two sons, William and Ed- ward Jr. At the time that his father became a Morgan partner young Ed was in Pomfret School. From there he went to the University of Virginia whither his brother William...
...YEARS OF THE LOCUST (AMERICA, 1929-1932) - Gilbert Seldes - Little, Brown...