Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record auction price for a coin was paid in Manhattan, not for the currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence, Manhattan neurologist...
Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...
There was one moment at the conference when the Archbishop's face became wistful. That was when Dr. Erich Stange of Cassel-Wilhelmshohe, Germany, suggested what he called "an audacious thought," namely, to have a central seat of learning for the Lutherans of the world...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...
...oldest competitor. He started out to be a major sensation by scoring a par 72 in the first round, including a freak shot on the lyth. With 175 yards to go to the green on his second, he bashed the ball with a mashie and hid his face. His caddie cried: "You've made...