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...delightful little branch") after a line in one of his poems, went to inspect what will be his official home after he takes office on June 1. The granite viceregal lodge, seat of hated British power in old Ireland, resembling Washington's White House, situated in wooded, spacious Phoenix Park, will now be known as Arus an Uachtarian ("President's Residence...
Divorced. Josef Washington Hall (Author-Lecturer Upton Close), expert on Far Eastern affairs; by his second wife, Alice MacFarland Hall; in Phoenix, Ariz. Grounds; cruelty...
Lapham, a resident of Levereett House and a member of the Hasty Pudding and Phoenix SK clubs, was pointed out by the columnist as being one of the forerunners of the new vogue in dinner jackets because his contained brilliant maroon lapels...
Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Surgical Goods Manufacturer-Robert W. Johnson, who was divorced two months ago from Conductor Leopold Stokowski (TIME, Dec. 13); to Prince Alexis Zalstem-Zalessky of Russia, student of tropical agriculture; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...