Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...
...Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...
...owing to the departure of Statesman Stimson for the U.S. (see col. 2). As the Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia, of which a notable appointment...
Andrew J. Volstead, once an inconspicuous Minnesota lawyer, has never deeply regretted the fame that came to him when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse him, and it was not altogether pleasant to feel that a large portion of his fellow countrymen regard him as a wizened fanatic. But Mr. Volstead has surmounted these drawbacks...
...distinction was too fine. An "Act to amend" is still an "Act," a law. And so, although "Five & Ten" was rapidly replacing "Jones Law" as the measure's name, Senator Jones tried to escape his misery by calling in company. He pointed out that the measure had had a co-author in the House of Representatives, Congressman Gale H. Stalker of New York, who was being deprived of his share of the credit. In fact the Stalker Bill, he said, had been introduced nine days before the Jones Bill. Insisted Mr. Jones: "I hope the proper term will...