Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carol "the brightest hour must end" and the hunters par excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...
...Close to the Coolidge heart is the endeavor of the Clarke School for the Deaf, where Grace Goodhue used to teach, to raise a $2,000,000 endowment (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, some $400,000 was still unsubscribed. The President authorized the Goodspeed Book Shop of Boston to put on public sale copies of the Calvin Coolidge book plate, at $5 each, all proceeds to go to the Clarke fund. The book plate, a postcard-size woodcut by Timothy Cole, pictures the Plymouth, Vt., birthplace nestling among trees, two expectant white collies on the grass, a ready fishing pole...
Proof of the growing interest in ping-pong at Harvard is furnished by the popularity of the tournament, now being conducted by Harry Cowles Squash and Tennis Shop, in which many prominent squash and ten-is players are entered. Heading the list of seeded men is M. T. Hill '31. Other seeded players are H. M. Culley, Gurdon Worcester, A. G. Thacher Jr. '29, R. S. Kazanjian 2G., G. H. Perkins 3S.A., W. J. Iselin '29, and A. Ingraham '30. B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University tennis team, and T. E. Jansen '26, runner-up in the State...
Divorced. Renee Adoree, cinemactress (The Big Parade); by William Sherman Gill, proprietor of a Hollywood tailor shop...
Representatives of Pennsylvania R. R.'s employes last week met with representatives of their employers and discussed, amicably, a wage increase. Result: the Pennsylvania swelled its payroll by about $4,000,000 per annum, some 43,000 employes benefiting. The bulk of the raises went to shop, maintenance-of-way and structural department employes. Prosperous was the railroad month of December, 1928. Forty-six Class I railroads reported an increase in net operating income of 67.3% over December 1927- $47,367,000 compared...