Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago Pavlov came to America. Confused by rush and roar he sat for a moment on a seat in Grand Central Station, Manhattan. A small handbag containing much of his money lay on the seat beside him and with characteristic absorption in the seething human laboratory around him, he forgot his worldly goods completely. When he rose to go, the handbag was gone. It had been taken from under his very nose. "Ah, well," sighed Pavlov gently, "one must not put temptation in the way of the needy...
More than a hundred portraits of women were hung up last week in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. The portraits-by Sargent, Zuloaga, Poole, Bellows, Orpen, Sorine, Zorne and many another-had in frequent case never been exhibited before. The sitters-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such-had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings...
...when nearly 48,000 letters of appeal for the Harvard Fund will be mailed from Lehman Hall to the Alumni body of the University. Twenty-five thousand of these are signed by the Class Agents of the classes from 1852 to 1928, inclusive. The balances are sent from the central office to the Alumni of the several Graduate Schools. This is the same date as that on which similar letters were mailed in 1926 and 1927, the first two operative years of the Fund...
...native of Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested with four other...
...ninety-sixth senator had, at the same time, received a package and a document from "The Kleagles of the Hooded Knight, Central Falls, R. I." The package looked very much like an encased violin, which the document said it was. But the ninety-sixth senator-Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned...