Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a white marble staircase which spirals from the first to the fourth floor of Elbert Henry Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan went begging for a buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided...
...cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank the putt...
...leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte were in no danger of contracting leprosy...
Last week an interior decorator went to the Fifth Avenue triplex apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired Danish-American zinc man. He was commissioned to remove some 16th Century Flemish tapestries which Mr. Lihme was lending for exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been...
...Rubens came to Fifth Avenue via the salons of princes and potentates. The Van Dyck, worth perhaps $200,000, was one of a set of eight that were, until 1906, the pride of the Palazzo Cattaneo (Genoa) for three centuries...