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...Notes on a Cellar Book," Saintsbury's magic sword, was all dressed up in red and white and black and gold and a preface by Owen Wister, and brought out in a new American edition, for a generation that has never known good wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...
Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia...
...Alan Seeger, the late John Macy. There is a Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world. Every year it brings "Copey" to the Harvard Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lamont, George Palmer Putnam, Owen Wister. Two years ago "Copey" retired as Professor Emeritus. In his wry, quavering, sprightly voice he spoke of a horse that was "old. lame, spavined, moth-eaten, blind in one eye, and with ears drooping. However, it seemed peaceful and contented. That horse, gentlemen, was Emeritus!" But Professor Emeritus Copeland went...
Alpha Delta Phi's colors are emerald green and white, its gems the emerald and the pearl, its flower the lily of the valley. Proud is A. D. to count among many another dead and living famed member the following: Theodore Roosevelt.Charles Francis Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Owen Wister. Stephen Vincent Benet...
Biographer Pringle cites as his source p. 4 of Roosevelt, the Story of a Friendship (Macmillan, 1930) by Mr. Spalding's Classmate Owen Wister. Biographer Pringle was not aware Classmate Wister stood corrected. For the statement that Roosevelt at one time thought he had been champion, Biographer Pringle refers to the legislative scrapbooks at the Roosevelt Memorial Association...