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President George M. Kober of the Washington Tuberculosis Association and Mona Laurent, a small girl in a white cape, came and gave President Coolidge his "stickers" (Christmas seals), thus inaugurating an annual national "t. b."-prevention campaign...
...female species, deadlier than the male, swam the English Channel three times in seven days. Britain burbled with delight over the prowess of its mermaids; U.S. papers printed smaller and smaller notices; even of the feat of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, (Nom de mer Mona McLennan) in bettering Gertrude Ederle's time. To Dr. Logan was paid the $5,000 prize offered by Lord Riddell of the News of the World to any British girl who beat the record. She had grooved the dark wet miles in 13 hours, 10 minutes; 81 minutes faster than Miss Ederle...
...slight. It is about a Connecticut Yankee (Ramsey Wallace) seeking escape from Brazilian tropics, and his wife's apparent infidelity. While thus employed, he wins the heart of a native girl (Rosalinde Fuller), but decides in the end to go back to Red Hill, Conn., with his wife (Mona Kingsley). The native girl commits suicide...
...deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent in was one describing the mask and derby hat worn at one point by Dr. J. V. Woolley, "Honorary Research Officer." And one telepathist accurately described a cardboard...
...copied his own works is hard to reconcile with critics' assertions that Scotland Yard experts have declared the fingerprints on various da Vinci replicas to be identical with those on originals; that two major continental galleries- the Louvre of Paris, the Prado in Madrid-have simultaneously exhibited a Mona Lisa. Suit for libel was entered against Sir Joseph...