Word: amassment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abramovitch is Anne Nichols' new production, with a cast of almost 100. It tells of a Russian Jew, whose ideal is uplift of humanity, whom poverty drives to amass a fortune in the U. S., who later loses both fortune and a beloved son, thereupon re-dedicates himself to his original, unmercenary ideal of uplifting humanity. Just how the elevation is to be accomplished is not divulged, but the End of Ends is when "all men love one another like brothers...
...Felton '34, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad and a brother of C. C. Felton '27, a former president of Harvard. Samuel Felton was a national figure, during the Civil War and through his acquaintance with President Lincoln and his services to the government was enabled to amass documents, books, and pamphlets of great value to the student of early American industrial development...
Died. Emil Bacher, 71, king of the Hungarian flour industry; in prison at Budapest; of apoplexy. Borrowing ?1,500,000 to fight the Chicago Wheat Exchange, he lost in a year the colossal fortune it had taken 50 years to amass...
...with the zooming passes of Benny Friedman, the smart defensive play of Ooster-baan, crossed the line almost at will. Score: Michigan 42, Oklahoma 3. Yale had a romp against Boston University. Two backs that have never been heard of before- Goodwine and Decker-helped a good deal to amass the formidable score of 51 to 0. Paul Scull, one of the fastest backs in the East, made Pennsylanvia's fifth touchdown in the last period against Johns Hopkins, which scored only once. Georgetown, outplayed, held Pittsburgh to a 6-6 tie. Cornell found in Niagara a well-drilled...
...call it the American Theatre," she cries, noting as she departs that Nola, tall, erect, indomitable on the bridge of the show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands to amass properties and backdrops for a panoramic old-American production, Miss Ferber appears to have been so overcome by her discoveries that she felt justified in asking the audience to absorb and admire the stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy...