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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word concerning the despatch of the note appeared in the German press. A few days later, however, Berlin heard about it from Manhattan. Angered, the German press demanded full publication of the report, loudly denounced the Government's secrecy...
...manner of the East, the conversations, held in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, begun by long and polite exchanges. Even then the point could not be broached directly. A long, a very long list of topics must be discussed before the word "ransom" could be even mentioned by inuendo. Thus the parley went on for some days...
...analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland by such means as are comprehended within the meaning of the word charitable." Under the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine the trust has supported child welfare and rural development work, and built libraries...
...Story: In Manhattan, last week a man & a women were being married. Came that part of the ceremony where the principals customarily repeat what the cleric dictates. Said James (with no word from the cleric): "I James take thee Sophie to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight my troth." Cried Sophie (with no word from the cleric): "I Sophie...
...Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature, Fame. Character, Politics, had been devised by Mary Smith they would have remained unpublished...