Word: marly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
Tradition has it that "The London Morning Post" in good, conventional Victorian times could make or mar a marriage by designating the proposed alliance as "suitable" or, by implication, the reverse, and correspondingly to have one's engagement and subsequently one's marriage chronicled in a box on the front page of Saturday's "Transcript" is almost as much of a necessity in Boston as a ring and clergyman. Not to be so noticed is a contingency fraught with horror to the youth and chivalry of the community, and Mr. Alexander always exercised his high calling with discretion and magnanimity...
...Hill is Lawrenceville's big rival but Hill's big rival is Hotchkiss. which has lost regularly since 1927. Last week, with only the Lawrenceville tie this year and a Lawrenceville beating last year to mar its record, Hill beat Hotchkiss 12 to 0. Only a few Hill boys were allowed to go to the game, at Lakeville. Conn.; 200 or so Hill alumni remembered the cheers well enough to yelp for Hill's Fullback Dick Hebard. who made both touchdowns, the second with a 66-yd. run. His punts averaged 43 yd. and with one exception...
...staff, impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from...
Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested...