Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Albert Sterner, Tony Sarg, Arthur B. Davies, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri, William and Margaret Zorach are among the artists who have been asked to enter in a competition for a "peace Christmas card" to foster international cooperation to prevent war, under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters. The best design will be chosen in January by a committee including Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Three prizes of $500 to $2,500 will be awarded. The card will be put on sale for Christmas...
...Smith, Governor of New York: " In a political speech in Brooklyn I described ' young Colonel Roosevelt' as being 'hopelessly ignorant of state politics.'" Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control proponent: " I announced that hereafter Chicago-not New York- will be the birth control capital of the U. S. In Chicago we shall established our headquarters; from Chicago we shall disseminate our information." Feodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso: "At a rehearsal in Chicago for Boris Godunov, opening opera of the season, I lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni...
...Dame Margaret and Miss Megan viewed it with apparent interest, but Mr. George turned to a glass case where several Lincoln relics reposed...
...maintaining their own bank. Nearly all of the 6,000 pupils now have accounts with their school bank, which last week showed "a balance of $8,348.39." The work of the bank is done by 25 students picked for their diligence, integrity. The President this year is a girl-Margaret Stein. Its purpose is to encourage thrift; but, secondarily, it is calculated to develop the desire and ambition to become a banker...
Married. Lady Evelyn Herbert, daughter of the late Lord Carnarvon, discoverer of the tomb of TutankhAmen, to Brograve Beauchamp, at St. Margaret's, Westminster...