Word: senior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles of Flanders, who was but a lad when the War came, stood silent with modestly bowed head during the British singing, beside Edward of Wales, 34, his senior by exactly a decade. Later the two princes, chatting affably, walked together the gauntlet of clicking cameras, mooning women...
...squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge...
...quoting Literary Digest existed in 1871 to extract the first strong utterances of the Omaha Bee. Staunchly Republican, the Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...
Died. Arthur K. Salomon, 51, Jewish philanthropist, senior partner of Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, Manhattan bankers; in Manhattan after an operation...
...assistant in the information bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland. Duties: to answer questions of U. S. tourists. Salary: about $40 a week. Last summer the job was held by William Curtis Bok, grandson of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Grandson Rockefeller will be a senior at Princeton University, in the autumn...