Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, world famed airman; and Anne Spencer Morrow, second daughter of Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow; at Englewood, N. J. Long rumored, long talked about, the marriage took place without advance notice. First word came two hours after the wedding when a Morrow secretary telephoned Manhattan journals, giving them a brief, formal announcement. Only members of the immediate families were present...
...meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life's new president. Director Leonor Fresnel Loree, head of Delaware & Hudson, was also dispossessed...
...psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility of nobles and peasants, few would pay to attend. It is as a psychologist, as the creator of the shrewd Generalin, the love-loving...
...entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke and Duchess de Talleyrand regret keenly to announce the critical illness of their son, Howard. . . . He shot himself because we refused him permission to marry until he was 21. ... The shooting took place in our home and our son was taken to a hospital in the Rue Puccini. . . . Our son is now in an extremely grave condition. We wish to emphasize that we had no objection to the girl, but only opposed the marriage because...
...true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance, manners, or artificial social orders create...