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...gallery sat Mrs. Harding, in black, wearing a short mourning veil. With her were George B. Christian, Jr., General Sawyer, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Daniel R. Crissinger (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board), Dr. Heber Votaw (brother-in-law of the late President) Amos Kling (brother of Mrs. Harding), Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy. In the Executive Gallery were Mrs. Coolidge, the wives of the Cabinet, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...discerning, therefore, find in Mr. R. L. Goldberg the "disillusioned spirit of the grim, sharp-witted Schopenhauer"; in fact only "a thin veil of hilarity" disguises the very dismal outlook behind all of the so-called "funny" sections. But the genius of the artists has never received the recognition it deserves. It is time for the public to realize that "the funnies are animated with the spirit of Aristophanes, of Horace, of Rabelais, of Congreve, and of Sheridan, of Shaw and of W. S. Gilbert...
...table were: the Rev. Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, President of Peking University; Ziang-ling Chang, Chinese Consul General in Manhattan; Tsannyoen Philip Sze, Chinese Vice Consul General in Manhattan; Mrs. Finley J. Shepard and Miss Susie Sorabji of India, dressed in a red flowing robe and a red veil, her native costume...
...Taking the Veil, 18-year-old Edna is very unhappy. She thought she loved Jimmy, but last night she went to the theatre and fell in love with an actor. Of course the only thing left for her to do is to take the veil. Then she realizes as she pictures a death in the odor of sanctity that she really does love Jimmy after...
...rarefied air of great heights, engine power and plane speed drop rapidly, yet the most effective fighting must be done at altitudes of 15,000 feet. Lifting somewhat the veil of mystery which shrouds its work, the British Royal Air Force gives news of tiny monoplanes, no bigger than a Mummert flivver, equipped with 320 horsepower and capable of 150 miles an hour with full military equipment at the greatest heights...