Word: theys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Hoover and Mellon sent a chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to...
He dignified his institution with the name Pomfret School in 1899. Ten years later his brother, Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted of Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as...
When the Austrians were reported to have crossed the Italian frontier in the World War, Dr. Modigliani supervised the transportation of all Northern Italian art treasures to inland and southern cities, where for the remainder of the War they safely remained.
Two years ago Ivy Chamberlain, handsome, Junoesque wife of then Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband...
¶ Aviation tycoons, among them Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, dining with the National Gliders Association in Manhattan last fortnight, offered nearly $50,000 to promote the useful sport of gliding. They foresaw 1,000,000 glider pilots in 1935 who could easily learn to fly motored...