Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...V. Pass. Three and one-half C's and one-half...
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale...
...Story. Dark, slender Gita Cartaret of Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
...this woman was not entirely derelict. In her vanity case she had: 1) a mutilated passport picture of herself, with some notes scribbled on its back, 2) some British pounds and shillings, 3) a small silver mirror marked with the initials "V. L." Reporters were somewhat skeptical of the woman. One of the notes on the passport picture was the name of Elinor Glyn. A telegram to the famed novelist in California elicited the reply that she knew no woman of this description. One of the pressmen, the representative of The New York Herald-Tribune, thereupon refused to have anything...
From the palace to church, to the City Cathedral went King Gustav V, incredibly tall, hiding a princely reticence behind a beard, under a high-hat, beneath a long-coat, a stand-up collar, a glittering pincenez. With him rode his Queen, golden-haired in buxom middle...