Word: alled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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All such fortunes are fictitious, reported Albert Halstead, U. S. Consul-General in London. "There is practically no estate of any size in chancery. The tragedy of the estate questions is that so many who write are manifestly people of little education . . . in straitened circumstances . . . who have found the suggestion...
Of all the people who have talked themselves into print, one of the most successful is Cowboy-Funnyman Will Rogers. The technique of a gum-chewing commentator ("Wal, all I know is what I see in the newspapers"), which he developed in vaudeville and which landed him downstage in the...
Last week through the bare boles of the trees, past the stocky, red-brick buildings of Pomfret School, a sombre hearse made its way. As it must to all men, Death had come to Headmaster William Beach Olmsted, whom Pomfret boys have affectionately, awesomely known as "Mr. O" for 32...
Physical fitness was the insistent credo of great-bodied, florid, sandy-haired Mr. 0. He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out...
When the Austrians were reported to have crossed the Italian frontier in the World War, Dr. Modigliani supervised the transportation of all Northern Italian art treasures to inland and southern cities, where for the remainder of the War they safely remained.