Word: polis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Marquis Lippi Gerini, of Florence, Italy; to Miss Lillian Madelyn Poli, 26, daughter of Sylvester Z. Poli, immigrant-to-millionaire theatre man;* in New Haven, Conn. Five Yale footballers and Swimmers Helen Meaney and Aileen Riggin were recruited for the bridal party. Firemen and State Troopers assisted New Haven police in controlling the 2,000 guests...
...parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
...said so in a letter addressed to the Atlanta Journal but meant for consumption by Bishop Cannon and friends. "Offering no criticism of others," Bishop Candler said he proposed, for himself, to stick to Scriptural injunctions and church precedent of the past half-century. " 'Do not preach poli tics?" he quoted. "'YOU HAVE NO COMMISSION TO PREACH POLITICS...
...President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing 25 millions to buy the Washington "Triangle" below Capitol Hill, on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Botanical Gardens and the Treasury. Besides many unsightly small buildings, the "Triangle" contains Harvey's Restaurant, the Southern Railroad's headquarters, Poli's Theatre and the President Theatre, all of which may now be razed to make way for Federal structures...
...part of distinguished Washington, last week enjoyed an enactment of this old tale-the tale of Dr. Faustus, legendary German philosopher, modified from Poet Goethe's tragedy for Composer Gounod's opera and re-modified into English, for the opening night of the American Opera Co. at Poli's Theatre (see Music, p. 22, for a further account). President Coolidge had been pleased to greet all the singers at the White House earlier in the day. He stayed through their whole performance and complimented Director Vladimir Rosing on how smoothly everything went. The box in which...