Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶Sir Edward Elgar, Master of the King's Musick, said at a public luncheon last week: "We have the satisfaction of knowing that the King is slowly recovering, and in a few months, unless there is an accident, we shall have him among us again.
Life is simple in the Venice of the South. It has an average population of 4,000. Nearly half, because few Americans will dive for sponges, are Greeks. Among them the trade is of immemorial antiquity and rich with legends, reaching back to the days when divers with burnished copper...
Said he in Berlin last week: "There is no occasion for anybody to be excited about it. There will be only a few mathematicians who will be inclined to read it and. although I never did make that statement which was ascribed to me that only eleven people in the...
Last week Dr. Lambert was obliged, and cheerfully so, to admit that he had erred two years ago. As head of the checking-up committee he had discerned that sly drug fiends had pretended cure to escape detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the...
Mrs. Maurrant pokes her head out of a second-story window. There is talk of the heat and Mrs. Jones, on the porch, asks Mrs. Maurrant to come down and have a chat. ''Well, maybe I will," says Mrs. Maurrant. She withdraws from the window frame and while she is...