Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 29

THE FVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. CODLIDGE LAUDS NEW BIRAPHES Dinner in New York Cele- brates Publication of Vol- ume of “Dictionary.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. November 14.—Men women of letters dined at the Roosevelt last night to celebrate American h aims to recreate and reinterpret makers of American life and cul- President Coolidge. to whom a copy e first volume has been presented. ssed regre t he could not at- tven by the American Societies, which has n the ta: of issuing the | Johnson, editor in chief of the diction- | ary, said, “we have sought to tell the | trufh avolding fulsome eulogies on the | one hand and the flippant, irresponsi- | ble tone of much modern biography on]‘ the other hand. Yet, as.we go down through the alphabet it may often re-| quire courage to tell the truth, th whole truth and nothing but the truth but no dictionary which aimed at any- ! thing short of the truth would be worth | while " Il | The biogranhies in the first volume | start with Abbey and end h Barry-| more. Others in the series sued at the rate of three a | | plementary volumes will list persons | who have’ died since publication of the | | book in which they would have ap- | peared | _Among the speakers w | Wilhe!m von wit: man Ambassador to the ited States :| TANKER MAKES PORT. biography, | Craft Badly Damaged by Gale Off | Cape Hatterns. | NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Novembet | 14 (P).—After encountering seas on | | Armistice day morning which all but | engulfed it and_riding out a 36-hour | WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1928. OODWARD & LLOTHROP 10™ 11™ F axD G STREETS Annual Fall Clearance Women'’s AN, e | Shatton brought the Brit 1 a letter to Dr. Joseph P. Cham- | Luminetta into port. here y berlain, president of the council, Mr.| >rnoon battered from ste 0l 1id that “in undertaking the| Capt. Shotton and his first ration of this dictionary your so- | Wall Pumps and Oxfords Formerly $13:50 to %18, Now $9'75 : I ales of the time : " quarters, wheel us and fore and he force of r. told thrill lety is performing a real service of |the tanker, its off the “utmost value. and Mr. Adolph S.|nouse, wireless apps Ochs is to be commended for so gen- [aftcr bridges torn away b erously underwriting the work.” the waves, wallowed almost Mr. Ochs is publisher of the New|the seas. York Times. “In " all Warm S--eaters elpless in Electric and steam gear in | many parts of the ship also were put these biograph Allen | out of operation. 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