Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen cocktail glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which his heirs assigned no value. But they wrote off 27,733 shares of played-out Mount Powell Mines (Montana), $922.49 deposited in closed banks, six gold-plated...
...this not only added melody to Christmas shopping but made the Avenue's 80,000 daily pedestrians acutely aware of an artistic rivalry which has begun to show signs of lustiness. The art in question has been conceived as such for only about a dozen years.* It stems from a conception of fine art as the handmaiden of Industry, first popularized by the Paris Exposition of 1925. Its professionals are now at work in all the big cities of the U. S., but its greatest expenditure of money and ingenuity is on a mile-long stretch of Manhattan...
...window display, in fact, has been imitation of the catchier varieties of modern art. First window designs openly based on an art exhibition were Saks's van Gogh windows in 1935. Since then Bonwit Teller has taken the ball from shrewd Saksman Ring and has had half a dozen tie-ups with Art, notably a Surrealist display in 1936 designed by none other than Salvador Dali. Bonwit's own Display Director Tom Lee has reached a certain summit this autumn with swank and cockeyed Ballet windows. Harlequin windows and "Sweet Surrealism'' windows, one of whose attractions...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, original of the dozen copies of the countrywide Bowl fashion, is still the No. 1 post-season game of the U. S. Contrary to popular impression, it is not a contest between the best Western and best Eastern team. It is a contest between the best team of the Pacific Coast Conference and any other team in the country that the Conference's choice chooses to invite. Last week when Southern California trounced the University of California at Los Angeles, 42-to-7, it finished its Conference season in a dead heat with...
...September hurricane, which wreaked so much havoc all through New England, did not do as much damage to the Yard as was feared. Half a dozen stately old trees were blown over and many branches were lopped off, but the Maintenance Department expects to have the Yard soon restored to all its former glory...