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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School of Political Sciences, Paris. He says of President Coolidge: "Small, uninspiring . . . dislikes games, prefers prosaic walks . . . skillful politician . . . eager to do what is right." Of the Governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith, Professor Siegfried thinks: "Excellent Governor . . . born in the slum quarters . . . prestige mainly owing to his origin...
...World-famed satirical clowns. Living pure-bred stallions driven to music and songs of Asiatic origin. Eccentrics and acrobats. The Brothers Krolikov Choir, of which one is a sister...
...accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor it is finding in non-academic circles is indicative of its appeal to those who are not intrinsically interested in its subject matter. Harvard...
...Were distant ancestors of President Coolidge named "Collins"? Were less-distant ancestors named "Colynge"? Sc, last week, Marc J. Rowe, heraldic artist, who traced the Coolidge family back for centuries. He added that "Coolidge" probably was not of Irish origin. Artist Rowe displayed in Washington a painting of the Coolidge coat of arms, a gold griffin on a green field, with the insignia "Virtute et Fide" (Virtue and Faith). The griffin, said Mr. Rowe, symbolizes watchfulness. It appears also in the coat of arms of J. P. Morgan...
...Long Island (N. Y.) College Hospital, last week, Doris Stansky, 2, knew not why doctors linked her blood system to that of her father, Joseph Stansky, milk wagon driver, and pumped his blood into her. She was affected by general blood poison, caused by an injury (of un- known origin) to her left hand. A neighborhood doctor, summoned during the night, had said her pain was due to "a little rheumatism" and ordered applications of cold water. She is kept living by the blood transfusion and by a mechanism of tubes through which liquid nourishment is let seep directly into...