Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WIDENER JUNGLE: Hard to get in and harder to go out. Not a night club by any means. Closes at tea-time. Rather bookish crowd. Rotten service, you usually wait an hour for what there is. No music, no rough-house. Drinking is frowned on, despite precious collection of 16th Century wine-cards. Ask to see the labyrinthine maze which lies behind the famous Grand Staircase...
...16th Century Gothic hunting tapestries, each...
...either edge of the U. S. are two of the greatest private libraries in the world. The Huntington Library in Pasadena and the Morgan Library in Manhattan are keen rivals. But in illuminated vellum manuscripts of the 9th to the 16th centuries the Morgan Library stands supreme. By the terms of the Elder Morgan's will they have been available to duly accredited scholars for many years. They are not, nor can they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution...
...boards last week as the new dramatic season got really started. Six plays, half as many as had appeared in the preceding two months, opened in Manhattan (see p. 27). One was a superb musical show. One was a very funny comedy. And the Theatre Guild began its 16th season with a production which, if not the most important, was one of the most remarkable in U. S. theatrical history...
...thief stalked into a room on the 16th floor of a Milwaukee hotel, pointed a rusty revolver at its occupant, University of Wisconsin's sapient President Glenn Frank. He demanded the keys to Dr. Frank's baggage. Backing slowly away as the thief rummaged through his belongings, Dr. Frank got into his bathroom, slammed and bolted the door, shouted for help out the window. The thief fled, without booty...