Word: esq
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail of Amesburgh is ordered to have before the court the body of John B. Nemo, who has been detained and confined in the common jail of the city of Amesburgh by virtue of an order of deportation and commitment pending arrangements for deportation made by Vincent Cummings Esq., Commissioner of Immiration...
...Coleridge, Esq. with the love, regard and esteem of his obliged and grateful friend." These words, signed "J. Watson", appear upon the fly leaf of one of the most interesting books in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, a book received yesterday from the library of the late Norton Perkins '98. For this volume, the library has had printed a book blate bearing the following inscription: "In memory of Norton Perkins '98, and in honor of John Livingston Lowes and his 'Road to Xanadu...
Seventy-two modern paintings, collected by the late John Quinn, Esq., were sold last week in the Hotel Druot, Paris, in an hour and a half, for 1,648,750 francs (about $55,000). A Cezanne went for 280,000, a nude by Matisse for 100,000; the highest price of the sale 520,000 francs was paid for a picture by Henry Rousseau, "The Sleeping Bohemian," which the artist sold 15 years ago for 400 francs. Even now some critics laugh at it. "What Idiot," asked L'Oetivre, "Will Pay the Big Price for the 'Sleeping Bohemian...
...innocuous. So Prohibition and personality hold the stage. One man will vote for John P. O'Doe because "he's really a good scout, has made a little money and wants the wife's picture in the papers. You can't blame him." Another votes for Peter P. Pringle, Esq., because "he has his little nip with the boys now and then; a man who will get us drinks if he can Good old Pete!" A third may rationalize a trifle. "I can't vote for Oscar T. Newton center: he's a Republican." Thus speaks the voice...
...thank Mr. Smith with similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound volume. It was dedicated and presented to Jeremiah Smith, Esq. After a sumptuous banquet in his honor he quitted Hungary last week...