Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union League Club in Manhattan, the staid rendezvous of successful business men, who look out with satisfaction on Fifth Ave. traffic coming up the hill from the south and going on to 42nd St., three blocks away, miners and operators met again after four months...
Finally pressmen sought out James Pershing, brother of John, at his office in the Straus Building, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. James regarded the questioners with a quizzical smile: "My brother let his teeth go without attention for some time, as one will. ... I suppose that his general condition too may have been weakened by the oppressive climate of Tacna-Arica, of which he has often spoken. ... I feel sure that my brother's condition is not actually alarming...
...Blunt and caustic argot of the prize ring injected into the seemly quietude of a Fifth Avenue home...
...fifth University Tea will be held in the Living Room of the Harvard Union this afternoon from 4.30 to 6 o'clock. Refreshments will be served and students will have an opportunity to meet the professors and their wives...
...paraded about Mukden, spitted upon sharpened poles. At length they were deposited upon the grave of one of Chang's faithful generals, who was killed by Kuo at the inception of the mutiny. Late despatches reported that General Kuo is survived by four widows, since only his fifth and favorite wife fell into the hands of Chang. Curiously enough, Super-Tuchun Chang's fifth wife gave birth to a child on the eve of the battle...