Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard a grandparent's plea not to throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...
...most dramatic murder cases in recent years came to a starting close last evening when Mary Dugan, follies beauty, was acquitted of the killing of her millionaire lover, Edgar Rice. The jury was out only a very short time in forming its decision. The acquittal came as a fitting climax to the brilliant uphill battle staged by attorney for the defense James Dugan, brother of the accused, and was enthusiastically acclaimed by a crowded court house...
...distilling company. U. S. capital, perhaps Fisher, is heavily invested in Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd., which controls more than half of Canada's whiskey. Last week dickerings went on between Walker and two other large Canadian whiskey producers. Consolidated Distilleries Ltd., Brewers & Distillers Ltd. Sir Edward Mackay Edgar, British banker, recent guest in Canada and the U. S., was believed to have been the intermediary...
...floor of the U. S. Senate last week stood Senator William Edgar Borah, fighting-man from Idaho. The business before the Senate was the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, already signed by some 60 of the world's nations. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Borah had steered it through legislative tangles, had secured for it the right of way over the Cruiser Bill (see col. 2). Crowds gathered in the galleries; political correspondents prepared to hear and to record history. The Kellogg treaty was ready to go over in bursts of Borahtorical splendor...