Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Helen Menken,* able 26-year-old U. S. actress (The Seventh Heaven, The Makropoulos Secret) ; to Actor Humphrey Bogart, 26 (Up the Ladder, Nerves, Cradle Snatchers) ; in Manhattan, after taking out a marriage license in . 1922. Married. Miss Katharine Duchatel Johnson, daughter of famed novelist Owen Johnson (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.) ; to one William E. Kugeman Jr., in Manhattan...
...home city to be seventh rather than eighth in the country by reason of a congestion of human beings is no particular asset. Save to the mythical western senator who travels through Europe in after dinner speeches, size is not an absolute measure of value. And Boston might indeed discover quiet achievements dedicated to the happiness of its citizens to be a suitable substitute for statistical boasting...
Although understandable, the psychology behind the love of the stupendous would seem to deserve amused tolerance rather than active championship. The estimate of the Census Bureau which places Boston eighth among American cities, rather than seventh as in 1920, appears to be no vital calamity. Yet the Boston Evening Transcript editorially considers this demotion sufficient reason for uniting the city and its suburbs into a multiple municipality. The smoky sections of Somerville, the placid regions of Newton, the bustling parts of Cambridge, all would be taken under the maternal, Bostonian wing to swell the statistics of population...
...second University baseball team beat Huntington School by 4 to 3 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The home team took the lead in the third inning with a single run, while in the fifth the Huntington players pushed over two markers, which they followed by another in the seventh...
...Williamsburg, Va., when the President received his seventh LL.D. (the first, however, from any college outside New England†) he paid a tribute to the founders of the country such as he has frequently paid before but in a style more ambitious than his usual utterance. Consider the following sentence: "And when the wanton ravages of war reduced this once flourishing institution, which had spoken so boldly in the cause of liberty, to a state that left little but the vibrant tones of the college bell and the fervent prayers of a devout President, it was a distinguished...