Word: burlington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford truck, a sense of humor, and, naturally, a wife. And though John can manage the horse, the truck, and even the sense of humor --Jennie goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John. Charlotte has its cynics. Though John...
...London, the Royal Academy exhibition of Sargent's work opened at Burlington House. U. S. tourists pointed their noses and their pencils at painting after painting, eager to point out the superiority of those borrowed from the U. S. to those owned in England. But alas, although 615 paintings were hung, not a single one came from the U. S. "Why not?" tourists asked indignantly. "Why do you go out of your way to ignore the superb U. S. collections...
...some disgruntled tourist should soak his catalogue in kerosene, light it and set fire to a picture, fanning the conflagration on until the flame, leaping from masterpiece to masterpiece, kindled the whole collection and turned Burlington House first into an inferno and then into a pile of ashes, insurance companies would pay the owners of the pictures $3,000,000. The portrait of Lord Balfour, loaned by the Carlton Club, was alone insured...
Chicago en fete, led by its Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station-"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects...
Miss Jean Elizabeth Baldwin of New Jersey, Miss Violet Burd Grubb of Burlington, N. J., Miss Rosalie Evans of Manhattan, Miss Florence Pratt of Manhattan, Miss Helen Sheldon of London, Miss Annie Laurie Warmack of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs Cass Gilbert of New York and Ridgefield, Conn. Mars. H. A. Murray of Boston, Mrs Bertrand H. Snell of New York and Washington...