Word: 34th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hawk last week perched on the balcony outside the Van Sweringen brothers' private suite on the 34th floor of their high Cleveland Terminal Tower Building. The hawk twisted his head and coldly looked far down at the pigeons strutting, the sparrows hopping on Cleveland's Public Square. They pecked away at crumbs, peanuts, popcorn. The hawk turned his head away. He darted it down at what one of his claws held, a strange bird killed at the tower while migrating southward for winter...
...Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat Miss Marshall at the 34th hole. "I am glad" said she "to have saved the championship for France...
Rouge, powder, lipstick were sponsored as simples for sanity, last week, by Dr. Edgar George Thomssen at the 34th annual convention of the American manufacturers of toilet articles, at Atlantic City, N. J. An approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic...
...however, the city fathers of Manhattan voted to make Park Avenue longer by smoothing the cobbles in front of the Vanderbilt Hotel and rechristening two blocks of lowly Fourth Avenue. Park Avenue thus began at 32nd Street instead of at 34th Street, and because counting begins at "one," the city fathers told Mrs. Bacon that her number must now be "five...
When play ended on the first night of the 34th game, Alekhine had an advantage of one pawn; a blocked pawn on the queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After...