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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus. These are at variance with the conventional story, which you summarize in your issue...
...seaside in summer, not because they need the money but because there is no cheaper way to make their possessions safe. In nearly all cases pawnshop profits go to charity. Thus the Paris Crédit Municipal is known respectfully as "Le Mont de Piéte" (The Mount of Piety) and with flippant affection as "ma tante" (my aunt). On the day President Roosevelt closed every U. S. bank more than 500 U. S. citizens obtained cash from Paris' Aunt...
...Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre in mid-June, usually played to out-of-town visitors until the following spring. Ziegfeld called the 1927 edition his last, spent...
March 2 and 3 will be the date of the team's longest trip. It will travel to Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, and Mount Allison, New Brunswick and hold a debate in each city...
...polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said her daughter : "Mother is resting well and making fine progress." Bound for Doom...