Private Papers Show Socialites and Myths Around Hollywood
A collection of quirky anecdotes portrays Eleanor Roosevelt era figures and Hollywood myths. It notes internment issues, private jokes, and public perceptions, including an amusing corned beef gift to FDR and actors' tax-heavy realities.
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Roosevelt
FDR
Steve Harry
Patterns Sewing Circle offers four girl garments
A sewing circle pattern advertises Pattern No. 8925 for four outfits a button-front frock overalls rompers and bonnet for little girls ages 1 2 3 and 4 5 in sizes 1 2 3 4 with yardage details and order info from the Pattern Dept Sowing Circle 40 New Montgomery Street San Francisco California includes a 2 cent postage per pattern and requests name address and pattern number for ordering.
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Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Calif
Woodrow Wilson on peace and justice for free peoples
The speaker declares the aim to vindicate peace and justice against autocratic power. He urges a concert of purposes among truly free and self-governing nations to ensure the observance of those principles worldwide.
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Woodrow Wilson
Pader River Originates Beneath Cathedral in Paderborn
The Pader is believed to be the world’s only river whose source lies under a building. About 200 springs emerge beneath the cathedral in Paderborn, giving the city its name and identity.
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Pader
Germany
Paderborn
Nine Quick Answers to a Mixed Set of Questions
A concise run through the provided Q A: Mickle meaning large or great in Scots. Victoria River Downs ranch in Australia covers 10 800 square miles. Punic wars Rome and Carthage. continual means repeated often, continuous means uninterrupted. Whitman’s Captain refers to Abraham Lincoln. horse in harness pushes. concentric circles share a common center. two presidents won Nobel Peace Prize Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. sole body to try impeachments is the Senate. semantics studies the meanings of words.
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Mickle
Whitman
United States
The
Science of Semantics
Victoria River Downs
Australia
Rome
Carthage
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
Gems and quotes on independence and generosity in verse
A collage of antique verse and aphorisms celebrates independence and charity. Highlights include Hosea on healing and binding wounds, Thomson on the soul, Bierce on prudent sharing, and Ingersoll on a generous life blooming after death.
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Thomson
Ambrose Bierce
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sargasso Sea Vast Anomaly in the North Atlantic
Collier's notes the Sargasso Sea spans a region as large as the continental United States and remains relatively motionless. It hosts a single dominant floating seaweed species, remarkable for growing at the surface yet dying at the base.
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Sargasso Sea
North Atlantic
United States
Collier's
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