Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a toxophilite gathered last week at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club, Rye, N. Y., saw arrows shot into the air, but knew they landed and where, for the occasion was the championship tournament of the National Archery Association. Better than his fellow archers at toxophily was W. H. Palmer...
Edward of Wales had crossed the Channel for the occasion, but, though he was welcomed cordially, louder Belgian cheers rang out for Charles of Flanders. Even Britons were glad that this keen, upstanding Prince had been pushed to the fore by the fact that King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are...
Married. Percy Aldridge Grainger, famed musical virtuoso; to Viola Strom, Swedish poet, painter; in the Hollywood (Calif.) Bowl, in the presence of 22,000 people who had just heard the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra play "To a Nordic Princess," composed for the occasion and directed by Bridegroom Grainger.
Major Mariano contributed to the Nobile Saga, last week, another and still more bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him...
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, rescuer-hero of the Titanic disaster,* flew his newly-acquired Commodore's burgee from the mainmast as the Cunard flagship Berengaria entered New York harbor. He succeeds the late Sir James Thomas Walter Charles, commander of the Aquitania, as chief of the Cunard fleet. Said...