Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel sorry for Fifth Avenue that this hotel is going out of business." He drummed the table thoughtfully with his fingers, and nodded solemnly again. "I opened the hotel and I will be closing...
...gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin ball...
Actually the Waldorf-Astoria, as it now stands, is two buildings. The first was erected by William Waldorf Astor, famed in real-estate deals of the last century, on the site of his residence at 33rd Street & Fifth Avenue. He planned to spend the rest of his life in England, and wanted to leave a great hotel as memorial. The Hotel Waldorf was the result...
...second Yuan is that of Justice, headed by the great Chinese jurist Wang Chung-hui, onetime representative of China on the World Court. The third or Legislative Yuan is a large council of from 49 to 99 members, with parliamentary initiative. The fourth and fifth Yuans are those of Examination ("Civil Service") and Council Control (having powers of impeachment and audit...
...Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic and of some other Chinese works of a historical or literary character, all of them ranging from the fifth to the tenth century of our era. As to the origin of the collection, I formed then a theory which has stood the test of time. In about 1085, a foreign invasion from the East frightened the monks who piled up in that cave all their manuscripts and paintings...