Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Moore, celebrating his 76th birthday in London, last week, announced that he had burned the original version of his novel, Aphrodite in Aulis. Shrewd, however, he had saved enough of it to make a fragment for Vanity Fair (March issue). He said he was rewriting the novel entirely: "I missed the architecture the first time and every thing in every art must have architecture. . . . After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more...
...Chicago Tribune, loud and bold though it is, never sent any such telegram. Neither did loud, bold Publisher William Randolph Hearst, though he was last fortnight reported as the successful bidder for Coolidge manuscripts after March 4, for the Cosmopolitan...
When they walk abroad in Boston, where in her father's old brick house in Brimmer Street she lives during his exploring absences, or in Winchester, Va., where Byrds have long had their homes, Commander and Mrs. Byrd usually march side by side with their four children (Richard Evelyn Jr., Evelyn Bolling, Katherine Agnes, Helen) ranged behind them. In their home he has a ceremonious way of listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate...
Packard Motor Car Co.'s President Alvan Macauley last week said that by the end of March he would be manufacturing the new Packard-Diesel airplane motor. That will be a milestone, the first Diesel-type (oil-burning) airplane motor developed...
...Haven, Conn., March 3--Yale Seniors, according to the list of preferences in the annual class vote announced today in the Yale Daily News, prefer a Phi Beta Kappa key to a major "Y" earned in sports, incline towards Harvard as their favorite college next to Yale, and in answer to the question, "What man, now living do you admire most?" cast a tie vote for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and "my father." They believe English to be the most valuable subject and psychology the least valuable...