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...fiercely spading students were assisting with the excavating of foundations upon which it is proposed to erect the Tsubouchi-Shakespeare Memorial Library...
...Massachusetts to serve the nation it was in the realization that the war against trusts would need trained umpires, whom the fanaticism of a people berserk would not lead into for getting that there is such a thing as a desirable monopoly. Sumptuary legislation meets in him an erect hard-thinking...
Last year, a crisis came in the affairs of the Stockbridge art colony. Spinster Mabel Choate bought the property on which the Casino stood, and proposed to erect a memorial to her famed father, Lawyer-Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate. She offered the Casino to anyone who would cart it away...
...Erect, kinetic and unservile, the great Feldmarschall August von Mackensen arrived, last week, at that nest of sycophants, the chateau of Wilhelm II in Doorn...
...proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women...