Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room to house it are the gift of the family of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, and are presented to Harvard as a memorial to him. The books constitute the personal library of the late senator, and the room was designed by his son. William T. Aldrich...
...pageant was equivalent to a coronation. A concluding event last week was a review in Tokyo Bay of the Japanese Grand Fleet by the Emperor and Empress. Conspicuously in the Imperial suite stood Admiral Togo, great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This was his day of might! With the plain wooden paddle which is his simple sceptre, Emperor Hirohito now rules the third greatest naval power in the world...
...first event of the last series of pageants consisted in "pleasing" the sun goddess Amatersu Omikami (divine ancestress of the Emperor) by playing to her primeval and mystic music which lasted through the night. Then with elaborate ceremony the Son of Heaven offered boiled rice and strong drink to the Sun Goddess, partaking with her of the food and Sake. On succeeding days three grand banquets were held at which five of the most noble ladies of Japan performed symbolic ritual dances which each Tenno gazes upon once. Followed an imperial pilgrimage by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako...
Born. To Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Manhattan; his first grandson, Irving Berlin Jr., the son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Berlin (Ellin Mackay); in Manhattan...
Engaged. John Coolidge, son of the President; and Florence Trumbull, daughter of Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut...