Word: closed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson combination has shown in the past two games that it can present a concerted attack on occasions. If the team can play throughout the game as it did toward the close of the two previous ones, Toronto will have no chance to let up during the contest as it did in the previous game...
Sapeloe Island, eight miles by four, lies between Brunswick and Savannah, close to the marsh-fringed mainland. Originally it belonged to the Creek Indians, whose ancestors left trinkets and earthworks showing they were influenced by the Mayan culture of distant Yucatan...
...friendly nation and each of the same age, friendly and equal States of a great continent in which great nations progress along an even line as a group of friends as friendly, or more so, than brothers with similar ideals, which lead in new directions to new purposed, all close together and all at equal levels...
Then, as the Nineteenth Century drew to its close, was the golden time of the Waldorf-Astoria. Prancing, sleek horses drew gleaming broughams and victorias to the doors, porters ushered bejewelled ladies and distinguished gentlemen into the labyrinthine lobby. Hansom cabs picked up titled fares at the portals...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...