Word: mer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Louise Wise Lewis, 31, heiress of the $60,000,000 Flagler railroad fortune; to one Hugh Romaine ("Dick") Lewis, 31, ice mer- chant of Bear Creek, Pa.; in Manhattan. The groom was not previously related to the bride...
...like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought to him by fawning mer- chants. The tremendous arches, waterworks and sewers at ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make...
Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough. Later she dined at the captain's table. Princess Ileana, clad in a grey one-piece bathing suit, swam several times in the ship's pool, accompanied by Prince Nicholas...
...William Belden Noble Lectures will be delivered this year by the Reverend Charles E. Ravon, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral, and for mer Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The general subject of the lectures will be "The Spirit of God Creative and indwelling." Canon Ravon is the Hulsean lecturer for the year in the University of Cambridge...
...Freshman squad, which reported to Coach Dashen at the same time, is a likely looking group and contains many mer with previous experience...