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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor of his father, Cornelius A. Pugsley, and his mother, Mrs. Emma Catherine Gregory Pugsley. The recipients of these awards will be designated by the governments of their native countries. In case of default of such official designation, the dean of the Law School will be empowered to select a qualified foreign student...
...thinking it is not sufficient for the President of the United States to communicate his views in writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls...
...Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
These modes, or adaptations of them, were seen last week in the salons of the 200 French dressmakers who pretend to Haute Couture. But of these 200, not more than 15 or 20 had originated new and startling designs. It was possible, therefore, for Parisians to discuss, eliminate, select the real titans of post-War fashions. And Parisians chose, not without acrid debate and violent disagreement, the Big Six of the dressmaking industry...