Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifelong gifts to charity were noteworthy, including $300,000 which she gave with Clarence W. Mackay to the University of Nevada. One of the three grandchildren present at her dea.th was Mrs. Irving Berlin (Ellin Mackay), whose marriage to the Tin Pan alley tycoon led to an estrangement from her father...
Samuel Insull, public utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...
...middle-aged Pan with monkey glands-such was the hazy impression, if any, of Havelock Ellis, until his Dance of Life expounded to thoughtful English and U. S. youth a philosophy of love and joy founded upon sound medico-psychological principles. The present biography condones the popular success of Dance of Life since that work displays neither the gamut of Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy...
...headlines topped reports of a furious oration by Pan-German Deputy Deutsch: "Austrians!! Today the Italians have erected at Bolzano, overlooking our frontier, a monument and an inscription which reads: Here Are The Frontiers Of Our Fatherland . . , From Here We Have Driven The Barbarian* Language, Laws and Arts...
John D. Clark, president of Midwest Refining Co. of Denver, Col., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, vice president of Pan-American Eastern Petroleum Co., announced that he would desert his business to take a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in law and economic research in order to fit himself for a permanent position in the profession of teaching...