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...Paris, dancing at the Duncan School there), a War veteran (she worked in the British Red Cross until her health broke), she has followed her sailor husband. Commander Ellis S. Stone, to the West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General...
...Roosevelt succeeds in bringing to head only 50 per cent of the projects such he has started in the first year his term, he is sure to be reelected in 36," said Edwin C. Hill, noted news writer and radio talker, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "At present he is the number one here in the United States, and with any luck he should hold is position until after the at elections...
...November 1929 the Winchell column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
...Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis...
Mark Shaw, Maine farmer, had a big family, as farmers should. Not all of them stuck as close to the soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made...