Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professor and educational expert since he was graduated from Missouri in 1911. For a while (1919-20) he was at Columbia Teachers College, for two years (1920-21) was professor of school administration at Minnesota. When War broke out he went to Plattsburg, thence to France with the 42nd ("Rainbow") Division as an infantry captain. He was wounded in action...
...current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk of the man who came in and demanded a scarlet casket with scarlet lining...
...which must have weighed heavily with the engineering President. But also of importance was the wide variety of other services General MacArthur has seen: aide (1908) to President Roosevelt, General Staff Officer (1913-15), press information officer in Washington during the Mexican Punitive Expedition; Wartime commander of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division in France, twice wounded, many times decorated for bravery in action; Superintendent (1919) at the U. S. Military Academy. In 1928 he was chairman of the American Olympic Games Committee. He is unmarried (his divorced wife, the onetime Mrs. Walter Brooks, is now Actor Lionel Atwill's wife...
...memory of Calvin Coolidge Jr., was published in the issue of October 1929). "The Quest": Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light And, hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And there uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Macfadden is the name which the Chamber of Commerce of Redding, Calif, will bestow upon the central peak of the Castle Crags (near Mount Shasta) at a ceremony in August. The proposed dedication...
...Presidents (Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Lawyer Robert Alfonso Taft of Cincinnati) accompanied President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...