Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most Excellent Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, finally attained and held for 50 minutes a pinning speed of one decoration every six seconds...
...Morse was sentenced to serve 15 years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta for false entries in the books of the National Bank of America. Mrs. Morse sold her furs, her jewels, her Fifth Ave. home to fight for his release. President Taft pardoned Morse on the grounds that surgeons reported him dying...
...nothing to say except that it is true that Mrs. Cravath has decided she prefers to live apart from her husband, and Mr. Cravath, while regretting the separation, has yielded to Mrs. Cravath's wishes in that regard. "Mrs. Cravath has taken an apartment at No. 910 Fifth Avenue, where she will reside. Mr. Cravath will continue to live at his present residence in New York and at his country place at Locust Valley, L. I. "In answer to a further inquiry, Mr. de Gersdorff and Mr. Sullivan said that a divorce was not contemplated or desired by either...
Others who have acted similarly are: Tertius van Dyke who left Park Avenue Presbyterian Church for a Connecticut village charge; Charles Clingman whom St. Thomas' could not lure from smoky Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Harris E. Kirk who has remained in peaceful Baltimore despite the insistences of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...Joseph has, with characteristically sensational effulgence, bedizened the new galleries in green marble doorways, marble parquets, gilt ceilings, much after the fashion of his celebrated "torture rooms" deep within his fancy Fifth Avenue establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur...