Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates...
...Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under the arms he quarried two lumps of black granite that he fashioned into two abstract female figures, known as the Twin Peaks. With these he returned to California, blandly expecting San Franciscans to put up $5,000 more to bring his colossus, sight unseen, across the Atlantic and the continent. When this was not forthcoming he withdrew to live apart, sleeping in his clothes, munching nuts in silence. Only two Californians...
...attempt of Minneapolis to capture fame as the Kellogg hometown is perfectly comprehensible to one who daily witnesses the editorial rapaciousness of the coarser of the Twin Cities...
...read in TIME that ex-Secretary Kellogg resides in Minneapolis. To you, boos, jeers and catcalls on behalf of St. Paul citizens weary of credit-grabbing Minneapolis, claiming St. Paul's great as its own, referring to Kellogg, Attorney General Mitchell. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler as "Twin Cities residents" when referring to these St. Paul citizens in their public prints...
Last week, Albert Einstein stepped ashore at San Pedro, Calif.; Auguste Piccard stepped ashore at Manhattan. While Professor Piccard allowed his twin brother to talk about left-handed twins (see p. 23), the balance of scientific attention tilted to Professor Einstein. For an hour before debarking he had been scowling through field glasses at U. S. warships in San Pedro Harbor. They annoyed him, made him exclaim: "More than ever before, I wish on this visit to promote international goodwill." German-American inter-relations is the subject of an international radio broadcast which he will make Jan. 23 for Philadelphia...