Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delightful book "American Soundings," J. St. Loe Strackly, says that on his visit to Harvard last year "the impression was that of surety youth." His comment on Harvard is all favorable with this possible exception." He says his student hosts at the Harvard Union were resplendent in "immaculate white waistcoats and dinner jackets of the very latest cut." Is it not a sartorial sin at Harvard to combine a white waistcoat with a dinner jacket? To old-fashioned chaps this is as irregular as russet colored shoes worn with evening dress. How about it? AN OLD GRAD...
...During a visit which I made this morning to General Emilio Aguinaldo in his artistic home in Kawit, Province of Cavite, Philippines, one of the first things that came to my notice was a late copy of TIME on the desk in his library...
...famed Mercersburg Academy. It was there that Mrs. Coolidge laid one of her many cornerstones, in June, 1924, for memorial chapel. The chapel has long since been finished. Calvin Coolidge Jr., Class of 1925, died of septic poisoning in Washington scarcely a month after his mother's visit at school. The dedicatory services were to be held on Headmaster William M. Irvine's 61st birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were to be guests of Dr. and Mrs. Irvine, adding nothing to the ceremonies but their presence and their private feelings...
Every Secretary of War is said to cherish a longing to visit his distant dominions, such as Porto Rico. But Governor Towner said nothing of the romance of tropic nights; clung tenaciously to statistical accuracy. When the Governor was a Congressman from Iowa he could fill his collar, and his cheeks were full. Now, after three years in Porto Rico, he is thin...
...royal saloon car at Bucharest last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...