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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank...
...exquisite physical imagery the Padua which Shakespeare could not manage on the bare boards of his stage. The Taming of the Shrew is Douglas Fairbanks' first all-talking picture and the first picture in which he has ever appeared with Mary Pickford. His lusty voice, individual because it has never been trained, makes the voices of the schooled actors who play with him seem prosy and lifeless. He has a fine time swaggering in Petruchio's pointed shoes, but his wife outplays him. She proved in Coquette that in spite of 20 years in silent stories she could talk...
...last week, pausing in Manhattan en route to Chicago, Sir Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...
...though not the hardest games. Sticking to straight football, West Virginia veered round and thumped past Washington & Jefferson in a snowstorm, 6 to 0. Watched by a bored crowd too cold to cheer, Colgate's backs spun out swift variations of a reverse play that Brown could never understand. Colgate 32, Brown...
...oldtime nursery rhymes came Associate Professor Annie E. Moore who teaches a course in child literature at Teachers' College. Said she: "If there's anything I abhor, it's stories about children who accomplish wonders by eating cereal and spinach. . . . Until this story came out, I never knew she [Miss Duggan] and the Bureau of Educational Service existed in the college...