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...Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha, who has just discovered the possibilities of Oriental art. The triumph of which he is really proudest, however, does not lie in the impressive pile of his purchases, but rather in the stroke of policy that succeeded in settling a matter fully as difficult for him as the original purchasing...
Evenings, there was open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
...lane of 14-foot cornstalks appeared at the West Branch, Iowa, railroad station. Down it, early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what...
...life his motto: "Our work is only commencing." From 1903 onward Mr. Davison Dalziel had been a member of the board and an intimate of M. Nagelmackers. He, now Baron Dalziel, is thus Chairman of the Board of Wagons-Lits by a definite right of succession. His proudest boast is that the Armistice was signed in Wagons-Lits...
...favorite beverage of that earnest temperance reformer, the late Thomas Cook (1808-1892). He became a travel agent through promoting excursions to temperance meetings, circa 1841; but his field became international and finally circumnavigatory when he organized the first world tour for tourists in 1872. Perhaps his proudest moment came when Thomas Cook & Son exclusively arranged the transport of that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight of Grace...