Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 12,000 bills left over, and a prospect of several hundred new ones. If it can act upon one-fifth of the pending and demanded measures, it will be a wonder Congress...
...Manhattan the diamond buying public instantly reacted to last week's news, causing a slump of two-thirds in the usual pre-Christmas diamond trade. Alarmed, the great Fifth Avenue jewelers issued a joint statement: "The price of diamonds will continue upward, as it has for 30 years. . . . The interview quoted from South Africa was obviously inspired for political purposes. . . . The London Diamond Trust has itself bought up most of the independently mined diamonds, and will undoubtedly continue to keep prices...
...upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building. Of this faction, the logical leader was silent. Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square to the Park, with one's eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove...
...necklace of emeralds and pearls for Mrs. Isaac Bell, for $5,500. Later the centre pearl alone of this necklace brought $90,000, money that went to establish the Bell Home for Gentlewomen. Twenty years in the U. S. brought him some wealth. So he moved to Fifth Avenue. Delmonico's was next door. Bankers and merchants would be there, eager to crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began...
...they entered an office in the theatre building and drew bogus checks. Mr. Roedel's duplicity had been discovered through his girl friend, aged 19, whose heart he had won with free cinema tickets and whom he had taken to live with him in a $325-per-month Fifth Avenue apartment in his sudden, ill-got prosperity. She had given him away by bragging to an old friend of Mr. Roedel's, the box office man of another theatre, about the new ice-making machine in her $325 apartment...