Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open...
Both Prince and Dictator were received separately in audience by His Majesty, who afterward appeared flustered. Tiny in stature and nervous, the bleak King contrasts as strangely with his tall, debonaire, swashbuckling son as with the burly, curt Dictator. If, as seemed probable, one of them advised, "You should kiss the Pope's toe," and the other thundered. "Your Majesty must not!" the bantam monarch must have been in an awkward quandary. For on Dec. 5 next?it was announced last week?King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay his first visit to the Vatican. The toe must be faced...
...encouragingly, advised Mrs. Page to take Ruth to Chicago to study during the summer with the Pavlowa Ballet. There followed further study in Manhattan under Adolph Bolm while the necessary general education was attended to at a suitable school for girls. Then in 1918, while Dr. Page and a son were with the A. E. F. in France, Ruth met quite by accident Victor D'Andre, husband of Pavlowa, at a Manhattan Sunday-night concert. He suggested that she tour with the Pavlowa company in South America. Followed a swift decision, passports, and at the age of 15 Ruth Page...
...Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago (a defunct organization then dedicated to modern ballet); for a summer in Europe as the only U. S. citizen ever with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last...
...momentary hero during the break was John Davison Rockefeller, who said he and his son had been buying stocks. When prices continued to go down so did Rockefeller's glory. But when last week Standard Oil of New Jersey was selling at 50¾, the market was electrified by an order to buy 1,000,000 shares at $50 and Rockefeller became a permanent hero...