Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Prince of Wales came to Long Island he stayed at J. A. Burden's house, which Delano and Aldrich built; they were consultant architects when the roof of the White House needed fixing. The Colony Club in Manhattan is some of their work, as is the institution where girls prepare for membership, Miss Chapin's School which has just opened; likewise St. Bernard's School, and the Knickerbocker Club, where good St. Bernard boys will go if they are lucky. Even Otto Kahn, when he decreed his stately pleasure dome at Cold Spring Harbor...
Nominee Smith, Mrs. Smith and daughter Emily Warner stepped off the train at South Station at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Policemen, three lines deep, and ropes failed to hold the burden of the mass. Wanting to touch, to say something to the Smith family, the People charged, milled, shoved, yelled. Scarcely heard were the screams of two girls whose bodies were bent back sharply over the ropes. Mrs. Smith became separated from her husband. He refused to take another step until she was restored to his side. An officer found her; she was white with fright. Finally...
Today's game will be important as showing the true worth of the reserve material. Three hard games remain on the Crimson schedule and it is unlikely that the first string men lean carry the entire weight of the burden without material...
Upon the shoulders of Helen Hayes, Charles Waldron, Bryant Sells falls most heavily the burden of making "Coquette" convincing. It is around them that the tense situations are spun, and it is through their telling characterizations that this play has been put across...
Recently the Six heirs found their inheritance taxes a burden. There were too many paintings. Works of art are heavily assessed in an age where everything is interpreted financially. An auction in Amsterdam was announced. To the auction rooms of Frederk Muller, on the banks of the Amstel, came a host of connoisseurs from all over the world. They came to take away from Holland the treasures that the loving Jan Six had collected. Without a particle of sentiment for the Dutch they gathered for refined looting...