Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim situation! Perhaps Prohibition is a success, but it is hard to think it is when women come drunk to my little coffee house in the Grand Central [Station] to steady up on a strong cup of tea before going home...
...wife, their two children, and his sister-in-law, Léonie Sylvestre, received an invitation from the Rev. J. B. Dubuc, parish priest of Lavigne. Would they come, the priest enquired, to have supper with him? Afterward, perhaps they would all go boating on the lake. So Albert La Frenière and the rest went to supper with the priest and later, in a gasoline launch, out across the close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they...
Harry Braun's most recent acquaintance is shrewd Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. Last week it became known that Otto Kahn had not given him any money with which to further his studies; instead, he had asked Harry Braun to come to Europe with him. This week, fiddler and financier sail together; after that there will be scenes abroad in which Harry Braun plays for kings and queens or performs as soloist for Paris philharmonic societies or the London Symphony, while Otto Kahn stands and listens. In New York, a job with the Philharmonic awaits...
...years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...
...March 10, 1876, Inventor Alexander Graham Bell summoned his assistant over the telephone, said: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Mr. Watson came...