Greensboro Plans 10 Raise Funds for Smokies Park
Greensboro kicks off a fundraising drive to purchase lands for a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains. Judge T. D. Bryson will address a February 23 dinner on park purposes and funding methods. Campaigns expand to High Point and Salisbury with local leaders and committees planning dinners and speeches by Horace Kephart and others to mobilize donations.
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Greensboro
Great Smoky Mountains
T. D. Bryson
State Superior Court
W. H. Spradlis, Jr
High Point
Judge Bryson
C. Garrett
Streh. Point
Horace Kephart
Miss Henderson
Salisbury
T. A. Snyder
H. H. Newman
R. L. Bernhardt
Ross M. Sigman
J. L. Summers
EB. C. Gregory
C. H. Marriner
French chateaux install American bars as country-house adjuncts
Paris reports a trend where Parisian owners convert libraries and smoking rooms into American style bars with white coated bartenders and high stools. Cocktail hour becomes a new national habit as Americans influence local drinking customs in ancestral country homes.
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Paris
France
Briand Diet Alters State Dinners and Chef Madam Rosalie
Prime minister and foreign minister Aristide Briand now follows a restricted diet while Madame Rosalie, famed for cooking at the Quai dOrsay, adjusts to his absence from official lunches. Americans abroad may visit a new museum display at the Palais de Justice detailing revolutionary captivity of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, housed in a room once used as a restaurant.
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Aristide Briand
Madame Rosalie
Quai D’orsai
M. Briand
France
Palais de Justice
Luis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Palais
Cociergerie
Anglers' Union of Paris Celebrates 36th Anniversary
The Anglers Union of Paris marked 36 years with a banquet attended by the minister of agriculture and dignitaries. Medals and a cross of agricultural merit were awarded for achievements and perseverance in fostering patience and notable fish catches. Afterward, members fished the murky Seine, despite poor conditions. The last annual contest yielded a pound and a half, surpassing prior records.
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Anglers’ Union of
Paris
Minister of Agriculture
Union
Seine
French dictionary adds two new words from Lynch law
The committee revising the French dictionary notes two new words borrowed from the term Lynch law. The entry reflects how social control language enters formal lexicons. The development highlights evolving usage in American English affecting French lexicography.
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Lynch Law
Academy Admits Usage of Lyncher and Lynchage Terms
The academy recognizes lyncher as a verb meaning to kill without trial and lynchage as the act or result of lynching. Derived from the Anglo Saxon concept of lynch law and the law of retaliation, the terms enter usage with defined senses.
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Academy
George's Recipe 3 Probed for Legality by Prohibition Groups
Washington scene sees debate as the Anti-Saloon League and the association against the prohibition amendment discuss a forthcoming event about the George Washington beer formula. Wayne Wheeler asserts the ruling prohibits advertising or publishing any information on liquor manufacture or acquisition.
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Washington
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Sargent
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
W. H. Stayton
Association
Wheeler
George Washington
Suzanne Lenglen Is Suffering In Collapse
In New York on February 20, a fragment from a jazz ballet titled Skyscrapers is discussed amid the Met Opera stage scene. The text mixes a sports figure name with a broader cultural note on jazz infused ballet in the city.
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Suzanne Lenglen
New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Doctor and student elope from Agnes Scott to Honolulu
Dr. Noel DuPre, an agent of the French government, met Virginia Hollingsworth a senior at Agnes Scott College in Decatur Georgia. Three days later the couple eloped and planned to settle in Honolulu.
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Noel DuPre
Virginia Hollingsworth
Agnes Scott College
Decatur
Virginia
Dr. DuPre
Honolulu
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