Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Frederick Cameron Church Jr., Boston scion, insurance man; by Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church of Newport, R. I., "Golden Girl," daughter of Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt; on the ground of nonsupport; in Newport...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, Bishop of Edinburgh, 75, "kindest man in Scotland," father of Novelist Hugh Walpole and onetime (1889-96) professor of dogmatic theology at the General Theological Seminary (Manhattan); in Edinburgh...
...making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...
Thereupon pompous Wesley Dexter offered himself richly in marriage, and Missie dared not disappoint her grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
Just as for every soldier "in the front line trenches" there must be three or four behind the lines in training or reserve, so in every business organization, for every man who is actually out in the field selling, there must be other employees in the branch or home office...