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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Died. Ford F. Harvey, 62, President of Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high. But no child appeared-the Empress having suffered the undignified phenomenon of phantom birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omens | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Fear not, Mary, for thou shalt . . . bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1932nd Anniversary | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...gently and without scandal, because he loved her notwithstanding. While he pondered thus one night the Angel came to him, and said: "Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins." So Joseph was reassured, and took Mary as his wife.-(St. Matt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1932nd Anniversary | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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