Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Mrs. Coolidge off at Northampton, Mass., by her mother's sickbed, President Coolidge was again a White House bachelor, as he was during Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe last month. One evening the President appeared at the theatre, for the first time in months, to see Criss Cross, a Fred Stone musical comedy. With him went Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, oldtime family friend. Next day Actor Fred Stone and his daughter, Dorothy, were luncheon guests at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge stayed in Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with...
...comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some...
There is some doubt as to whether Siamese twins should be discussed in terms of the singular or plural, although from the examples of mental incompatibility they seem occasionally less congenial than identical twins. Margaret ("Maggie") and Mary ("Puddin' ") Gibbs of Holyoke, Mass., reputedly the only U. S. born and bred Siamese twins, vaudeville artists, deny that they are identical. "We have different ideas of pleasure," they say. In England alcoholism and prohibition are united in one pair of Siamese twins...
Last week Mr. Bowman, as president of another company (Bowman Management, Inc.), made a deal with Mr. Bobo to operate hotels that Mr. Bobo is building in Lowell, Mass., New Brunswick, N. J., White Plains, N. Y., Jersey City, N. J., Yonkers, N. Y., and will build in similar communities throughout the country...
After a thoroughly thrilling set-to with the Knights Templars, who are painted as Black-Mass men and whose assassins invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...