Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supervising inspector general of the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, gravely put his name last week at the end of a long document. It was a review of all the evidence given at the inquiry which he conducted into the sinking of the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes on Nov. 12, with a loss of in. It blamed the man whose death, clinging to the bridge of the doomed ship, has been called another saga of the sea: Captain Carey...
Further indignation was caused by an article describing students at the University of Virginia* as genial and not infrequent drinkers.† Editors of University of Virginia magazines, outraged, pledged their efforts to have the Eastern College Comics Association also repudiate College Humor. The sole other college comic association, the Western, voted to cancel all contracts with it eight months before the recent action of the Midwestern...
Unperturbed, editors of College Humor could still point to their survey which covered seven fraternities in colleges from Yale to Wisconsin, from Syracuse to the University of Virginia, where at Kappa Sigma more than 95% of the fraternities were readers of College Humor. The result of this survey showed that out of 276 collegians, 242 read College Humor regularly, frequently or occasionally...
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love...