Word: villas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East: Harvard v. Yale at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Rutgers at New York; Army v. Ohio Wesleyan at West Point; Navy v. West Virginia Wesleyan at Annapolis; Fordham v. Bucknell at New York; Brown v. New Hampshire at Providence; Lehigh v. Lafayette at Bethlehem; Villa Nova v. North Carolina State at Philadelphia...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
...work of Paul J. Weber of Boston, a specialist in this type of photography. He has made a file of photographs for Dartmouth and many other New England institutions. In 1927 he won the annual prize of the New England Association of photographers for his picture of the Villa d'Esty...
...stone high above Italian Lake Maggiore about a mile from the Villa of Locarno, Switzerland, that Germany's Stresemann talked momentously with France's Briand...
What Ignace Jan Paderewski was thinking as he sat on the terrace of his villa at Morges, above Lake Geneva, Switzerland, one evening last week, is not a matter of record. He might have been thinking of his U. S. tour, scheduled to begin on Oct. 22, or he might simply have been reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which...