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...Caligula's time, 12-41 A.D., the popular rendezvous of Rome's patrician bounders was Lake Nemi (Nemorensis Lacus). There among symbolic oak trees was the Temple of Diana, richest in Latium. Diana was the moon goddess, Caligula's unreachable hope. Every time she was full he would stretch out his arms to her, implore her to his embraces...
...frequently turned these offices over to him for conferences, for preparation of speeches, for other occasions demanding labor or solitude. The room occupied by Mr. Smith is on the corner facing his former suite in the Biltmore Hotel. The ceiling is of Spanish stucco, the walls, panelled in mission oak, are decorated with stuffed animal heads. *Mr. Cohen whom newspaper men last week certainly referred to as an office boy, figured as a secretary during the presidential campaign, shared, perhaps, in the universal deflation of his party...
Died. Dr. C. E. Hemingway, 67, of Oak Park, Ill.; father of famed expatriate author Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), chronic diabetic; by suicide; in Oak Park...
...coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...