Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone who has been Lord Mayor...
...weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...Some members of Princeton's present junior class boast that theirs is "the hardest-drinking class since the 'Nass' [Nassau Inn] "the bar closed...
...large and prosperous Cafe Edouard Sacher on the Ringstrasse belongs to Frau Sacher's son. The Cafe Edouard Sacher is new and noisy. There is a jazz band, a cocktail bar, plenty of money in the cashier's drawer. Frau Sacher never allowed Edouard to have a word in the management of her hotel. Still Edouard was a dutiful son. It was no secret that the jazzy new cafe had paid many an overdue account for the old hotel...
Although a graduate of law school, and a member of the Massachusetts bar, Mr. Peabody never undertook, the active practice of law. Following his graduation from the University, he travelled extensively for many years, spending considerable time in big game hunting in the African jungle. Throughout his life he was noted for philanthropic endeavors...