Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems too bad that the President has not a right to attend a church service as a man, instead of being made the centre for all eyes. There is one thing that both his warmest friends and his bitterest enemies must concede to the President, and that is his consistency in church attendance. He is genuine in his attention to his spiritual duties...
...busses may be the last word in transportation and they may have cozy seats of plush velour, but a terminal on the Island of Manhattan is still the thing. People wondered whether the officials of the B. & O. and Pennsylvania R. R. had ceased to be friends, whether the B. & O. would retaliate for being ousted from the Pennsylvania Station by running faster trains from Washington to Chicago than the Pennsylvania could possibly schedule (because of its longer and more curved route...
...fairly engaging band of stagefolk tries to do the Chariot kind of thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...
...were treacherous as a swarm of sorcerers. They did not wage fair battle, but disguised in many shapes their malice, plotting curiously to undo her. Now an army of horsemen came riding against her breast, with plumes blown back and dark flanks swelling in a line; and now a thing like a wolf reared over her and fled
Engaged. Virginia Dorothea Morris, eldest daughter of the Morris banking system* founder; to Lieutenant Earle H. Kincaid of Covington, Va. Engaged. Ruth Whiting, daughter of William F. Whiting, (famed manufacturer of letter paper) (When you thing of writing think of Whiting); to one Neil Chapin, brother of Alfred H. Chapin Jr., famed tennis player; at Holyoke, Mass...