Word: aves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania Ave.?inspiration of patriots, aspiration of statesmen, shrine of all good U. S. citizens?whither Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif., will move on Monday? was first called "The President's Palace," then "The President's House." Not until 1814, when it was repainted to hide its British fire scars, did it become "The White House...
Less important guests go to the east entrance, on East Executive Ave., and reach the White House through a long corridor-cloakroom...
Died. John ("Jack") Linder, 13, of No. 1340 Third Ave., Manhattan; of pneumonia and delay. A police emergency squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June...
...autumn came the news that Walter P. Chrysler was going to build the world's tallest skyscraper, a 68-story colossus towering more than 800 feet above Lexington Ave. and 42nd St., Manhattan...
Keen has been the rivalry between two most famed sporting shops. Over the question of whether Von Longerke & Detmold, Inc. (349 Madison Ave.) sold more alluring and successful trout flies than Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (360 Madison Ave.). Many a family has been divided against itself. Last week such families were again united, as were the two shops, in a sporting merger...