Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...
Unusually eventful, a little saddened, was last week's opening by the death of James Rowe. Not to most jockies, trainers, nor even to many a famed sport king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at 16, he early won fame and money. When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week...
...Anglicans' Sir Giles, England has no more famed architects. Catholic Sir Edwin, 60, designed the Government House in Delhi (India), many memorials, is an eclectic, fastidious craftsman. Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
...taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich women's gigolos." The only ascertainable basis for such scandal is the appearance at Reno's railroad station, from time to time, of clean-cut young college men come to say goodbye to ladies from far parts whom they knew in Reno while they (the ladies) were being accommodated on domestic matters by a State more sympathetic than most...
...found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly...