Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgian Congo. Dim news from dimmer Africa tells of Negro giants seven feet and more tall. To study them Explorer Paul C. Hoefler and Writer Harold Austin, are on their way to Mozambique on the east coast of Africa. Thence they will work westerly across the Lake Nyasa country into the Belgian Congo uplands...
...last week, a small baldish man named Paul Block announced he had bought the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Standard Union. The price was $1,000,000 or thereabouts. For the Standard Union it was a tidy sum, because for all its 65 years of distinguished history, the paper was losing money at the rate of about $25,000 dollars a month...
Publisher Block is proud of his sons, Paul Jr. (now at Hotchkiss School), and William (entering Hotchkiss next year). Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised. Down by the golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
Distinctions are unknown to him. President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...
Married. Leila Stuart Holt, daughter of President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College, and Maurice Rotival, son of French Railroadman Paul Rotival; at Woodstock, Conn...