Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maracayans were to see your map of South America in the Dec. 24 issue with never a mention of Maracay. You say "Caracas, city of perpetual spring and home of General Gomez." All wrong! Gomez, le Grand, never sets foot in Caracas, he lives, breathes and transacts all business right here in Maracay- the Versailles of Venezuela. And what's more. at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning Favorita lives here, just a block from...
...Pages of the Tsar. He was a younger son, and when his father, Peter I, succeeded the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch in 1903, he had no expectation of reaching the throne ahead of his elder brother Crown Prince George. However, a distressing malady forced Prince George to renounce his right of succession in 1909, and a similar necessity obliged King Peter to appoint Prince Alexander regent on June...
Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...
...Roberts is right, there are a great many things wrong with Harvard. The traditional atmosphere is a take, the College is over-infested with a queer specimen called a "dean," Harvard men are enthusiastically indifferent and "run screaming" when attempts are made to penetrate this false cloak of self-consciousness, the names of all clubs are asinine, the College is run by temperamental Student Council Reports, graduate school students are social pariahs because they have lost "the true Harvard bloom", and, most significant of all, the "cozy collegetts" (Mr. Roberts' nomenclature for the units of the House plan) constitute...
Rotating the coxes from one crew to another and from heavy to 150-lb. squad will be continuous from the time that the weather permits eights out on the water until the University crew is announced right after the Spring Recess. Selections at the end of this competition are made by the oarsmen themselves on the basis of ability and personality. Each crew is after the man with whom they can work best and who, in turn, can get the most out of the eight which he coxes...