Word: trajan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mimi Brokaw, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan clothier; to Richard Derby Tucker, grandson of the late Dr. Richard Derby; in Manhattan. Died. Trajan Grosavescu, Rumanian tenor, after singing "Woman is Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt...
...Greek wars with Greek; Jew helps Jew ..." a procurator wrote to his Emperor, Trajan. He was not the first to observe what he expressed so pithily: the racial loyalty of the Jewish people, a loyalty that has kept them together, like a colossal freemasonry, while other nations light the world for a while, then crumble down. For some weeks past the Jews in various IT. S. cities, animated by this tradition, have been working to raise money for the relief of the Jews in Eastern Europe...
...unusually well-informed person who is persona grata at the Quirinal, who has the Pope's ear and who has sources of information denied even to Premier Mussolini-according to this great unnamed mystery man whose ways are more incomprehensible than those of the cats in Trajan's Forum, the Queen makes cheese for the King...
...dirty and dejected-a busted-boom town, not oversatisfied with Angora. Algiers looks prosperous. Hyde Park of a Sunday is changed; British anti-Socialists, Fascists and Gospelers replace the 'lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk at the Grand Hotel, Paris, can hold a telephone in each hand and turn the pages of his ledger with his elbow. King George quotes Cromwell; his grandmother drove around a block in Manchester to avoid passing Cromwell's statue...
This year, the custom of giving the city birthday presents was inaugurated. The Government gave the city another hill, that of Monte Mario; part of the Esquiline Hill, adjoining the Domus Aurea and the Baths of Trajan; the historical Villa Celimantana. All these are to be turned into beautiful gardens, thus completing a cercle jardinier around the city...