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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Alfonso XIII docked, last week, there strode down her gangplank the Count de Guelle, Marquis de Comillas, "the richest grandee of Castile" ($150,000,000. His Majesty King Alfonso XIII will visit the U. S. within a year...
Marrow, Alfalfa. "One of the greatest services a man could render the world today would be the formulation of a recipe for an appetizing dish of bone marrow. Next would come an introduction of alfalfa as an item of our menus. Alfalfa is the richest of all foods in vitamin and iron."-Professor Louis S. Davis, Indiana University...
...make the new Harvard library in Brighton a depository for such scattering books on business as are not required for ordinary current use at the Library in Copley square. In return, the Boston Public Library, and every citizen of Boston, will be given free use of one of the richest and most complete collections of books and files on business now in existence anywhere in the world...
Intermezzo's libretto, based on personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...
...Author is that college professor who last year, with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, amazed people by demonstrating that a scholar, musician, poet and dramatist can also be a novelist-of-manners in the richest veins of language, wit, philosophy. Galahad, as superbly and warmly humanistic as its predecessor, proves that the latter was no mere tour de force nor a long-polished secret gem, but an inspired creation the like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation...