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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
About beautiful, aristocratic Hungarian, women there often clings a subtle, exquisite perfume. Often as not that perfume is created by M. Francois Coty of Paris, artificer of olfactory pleasure. Last fortnight, it seemed as if many Hungarian, women would still be delightfully gowned, still be beautiful, but unfortunately would not still be perfumed by Coty...
...reason is that M. Coty's perfumes were banned from Budapest last fortnight when he printed a disparagement titled "Hungary, Land of Counterfeiters and Pickpockets" in his French newspaper, L'Ami du Peuple...
...that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport of Vera Cruz a strange streaky red glow in the night sky accompanied the tremors, which were...
Post graduate work brought Parson Faunce an A. M. in 1883, D. D. in 1897, LL.D. from Baylor in 1904. During all this time he held many jobs?but all within cloistered quads or the protecting arms of the Church. He taught mathematics at Brown, led erring sinners back to the Baptist fold in Springfield, Mass., New York, and Harvard. In 1899 he became Presi- dent of Brown & Professor of Moral & Intellectual Philosophy. His classes in Moral & Intellectual Philosophy were small but his Presidency was adequate...