Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strain of Church of England polemics have strained his once stout physique. York, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, who succeeds him, is 64. He looks like George Washington; is forthright and voluble in debate. Law was his first study. He was a student in the Inner Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after...
...girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios...
...University graduate, sailing on the lie de France, planned an unusual itinerary. Two days in the ship's engine room, four days in the dining room and steward's pantry, several weeks in the Hotel Ritz at Paris, more weeks at other famed European hotels, will complete Student Swenson's postgraduate course in hotel management. In the autumn, Manhattan's Hotel Astor will benefit by his experience...
...Princeton senior, sat pleasantly near the top of the world of U. S. tennis. He was sixth ranking player in the country. Educators, thoughtful parents had applauded with enthusiasm his decision to take his college degree rather than a good chance for the Davis Cup Team. The degree assured, Student Vanryn went to the Merion Cricket Club (Haverford, Pa.) seeded player in the Intercollegiates...
Young architects want more than anything else to win the Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, providing $3,600 for two and a half years' study at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Last week one Thomas H. Locraft, 24, student at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, won it for his design of "A Supreme Court Building of a Republic." More extraordinary than the prowess of the winner was that of the Yale University School of Fine Arts which supplied three prize winners in the competition-A. J. Kelsey, who was second...