Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twittering, chirping, trumpeting, yipping, squawking, grunting, bristling, gibbering, jittering, wagging, scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits...
Engaged. Nancy Susan Reynolds, 18, daughter of late Tobaccoman R. J. Reynolds; and Henry Walker Bagley, 24, of Atlanta and Manhattan; at Winston Salem, N. C. Fortnight ago her brother Zachary Smith Reynolds, 17, married Miss Anne L. Cannon, 19, at York...
Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco...
Married. John Whitten Davis Jr.,* of Brooklyn, onetime Princeton football & water polo captain (1927); and a Miss Gladys Snell; in Manhattan...
Appointment Declined. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; to be Protestant Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio. Reason: He was lately elected to the chair of Pastoral Theology at General Theological Seminary. "I feel that I should not resign this post except for overwhelming reasons...