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The paintings piled up. The Havemeyer house on 66th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, large as it was, began to look like a warehouse. When every inch of wall space was covered, Monets, Manets, Degas were piled in the closets. French bronzes and Japanese ivories found their way into Mr. Havemeyer...
A new racket has appeared at Harvard, and almost simultaneous with its arrival, a means of combatting it has been devised. A pair of ingenious go-getting bootleggers recently hit upon a novel means of increasing their effectiveness as salesmen of illicit spirits. They had tried arguments supporting the authenticity...
He dignified his institution with the name Pomfret School in 1899. Ten years later his brother, Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted of Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as...
In Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William...
For 40 years Thurston, successor to the late great Kellar, has been extracting rabbits from the collars of old gentlemen's overcoats, smashing expensive watches, bisecting young girls, making them disappear, float in the air. He has had three challenges (in foreign countries) from young men whom he humiliated...