Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...Author. Percy Molesworth Sykes was bom 67 years ago, played racquets and ran a fast mile at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other...
...trip?" Said Miss Gillespie's mother: "The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . ." At a Manhattan auction of the furnishings of the home of the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice...
...Dawn Powell; Theatre Guild, producer) is a glib little pastiche which ends the Theatre Guild's 16th season, brings minuscule Ernest Truex and fluttery Spring Byington into the organization for the first time. Miss Powell is better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...
...York Central, 47,000 U. S. Steel common, 54,833 American Telephone & Telegraph (which last week were reported to have been sold), 32,500 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R.. one share of Jekyl Island (Ga.) Club valued at $1,500. His chattels, appraised at $736,604, included a 16th Century Indo-Persian rug ($60,000); two Beauvais wall tapestries and four Beauvais panels ($155,000); Rodin's The Kiss ($20,000). Under the will as probated, the banker's son and namesake, now chairman of First National Bank, received the bulk of the estate and personal effects...