Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Mannes became director of the New York Music School Settlement, oldest of its kind in the U. S. The school at first had only a half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...broker some months ago showed His Majesty an extremely complete set of pictures giving King Zog a good idea of some few dozen European titled women all primed to become his Queen. The 41-year-old King liked best the pictures of 19-year-old Countess Johanna von Mikes, a Hungarian. The Portuguese broker chartered an airplane, retained the services of two chaperons and flew Countess Johanna to Tirana just in time for King Zog to have her for Christmas...
...mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen dangerous characters and a police aide (Sam Levene), the lights suddenly go off and shooting starts. Insuperably nonchalant Detective Charles utilizes this moment for a quick drink...
...brother Henry is a well-known music critic. Hard working, and after four years in the War almost pathologically shy, Artist Malherbe has just one interest out side his painting: Nornie, his black-saddled wirehaired fox terrier, which he likes to put in figure compositions. Represented in a dozen good collections, Artist Malherbe has a technical peculiarity. He paints everything on panels of soft wood, to ab sorb the excess oil in his pigments, and refuses to varnish any picture until ten years after he has painted it. He believes colors take that long...
After the political conventions, M. B. S. in rapid succession added more than a dozen stations to its network in New England and the Midwest, reached into the South. Most important, the Don Lee Broadcasting System of California decided to sever relations with C. B. S. and join. M. B. S. This switch, effected last week, raised Mutual's station list...