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...long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. ¶ A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller was National Republican Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, ''Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande." ¶ Widespread is the Washington belief that Postmaster General Brown wants to succeed Charles Curtis...
...department of Education at Minkuo University, China, last week announced that he had found recorded in Imperial Chinese chronicles dated 1777 the fact that one Li Ching-yung had been imperially honored for being 100 years old, that 1877 annals reported the same Li Ching-yung celebrating his sooth anniversary, that the same ancient is now 252 years old and is still living in Kai-shen, Szechwan Province...
...Quick to sooth the ruffled feelings of the U. S. was Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, iron-man of the Second Dawes Commission. Agreeing with Dr. Stresemann that the Young Plan annuities were merely a makeshift and did not represent Germany's capacity to pay, he urged ratification of the plan, but hastily added for U. S. consumption...
...questions which from time to time come forth to irk him with their barbed amorphousness. And among these is the desire to know the identity of the seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...
...government, realizing how much more importance is usually attached to injured dignity than to actual harm, is wise enough to sooth the cries from the Southward. But in the meantime Americans will doubtless continue to call themselves Americans, and Mr. Mencken's favorite column-heading need not for a while yield to a less euphonious name...