Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true importance : Snook. I am constantly being laughed at because my name is Snook, and yet we are a good family with three of us in the new Who's Who. Homer Clyde Snook is a great electro-physicist. John S. Snook was a member of the 57th and 58th Congresses. And John Wilson Snook owns a 506 acre livestock ranch at Baker, Idaho, and is Prison Warden at Salmon, Idaho. People here in the East don't seem to know about the Snook family, and I hope you will print this so they will. MONTAGUE MORTON SNOOK...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company and create a midWest music Mecca. Perhaps Mr. Insull's plan is a lusty answer to the Babylo-American style skyscraper which Otto Hermann Kahn is now erecting for the Metropolitan Opera among the tenements and speakeasies which creep up to 56th and 57th Streets at 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan...
Many a night James Calisch sat until dawn with young Emanuel Silberstein, who would come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose...
They formed the "57th St. and 5th Ave." Corporation and had plans drawn for a magnificent 55 story hotel. Then they went to bankers to negotiate a loan. The bankers promised to furnish $16,000,000 but wished certain changes made in the plans. They thought that 13 stories should be lopped off the design and some of the splendor eliminated. So plans for a 42 story hotel were prepared. Then for an unpublished reason the members of the syndicate fell out with one another...
...Knighted in 1922 for his astounding work with War wrecks. Now in his 57th year he makes his home at Alassio, Italy...