Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There most certainly were! Everyone connected with the duel was firm about that point. To prove it George Bratianu showed a hole through which he said a bullet had entered his trousers and lodged there. He produced a bullet, smilingly declared himself unwounded. But he had been hit, agreed the seconds, so there was no need to duel nastily to the death with sabres...
...title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month...
...women of the world owe a debt of gratitude to Publisher George Putnam and to TIME for the reproduction of the photograph "Living Death," TIME, March 21. The picture of a well-groomed British officer in his uniform, close cut hair, firm lower jaw, straight gazing brave eye?and NO FACE between; caption quoted from army dictum: ''only the pleasant features...
...stern museum guard barred the way. They appealed to Curator Herbert B. Tschudy. He was polite but firm: they could copy almost anything else in the Museum, provided the copies were only of parts of pictures-but not the Sargents and Homers. When the Museum bought its Sargents from the bearded Bostonian, it promised that his water colors should never be copied...
Eagle. The mouth-twisting name of a pencil firm started in 1856 was Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Reckendorfer. Later it became Eagle Pencil Co. It makes fountain pens, has the largest timber reserves of any U. S. pencil company, boasts of having invented the inserted eraser and indelible pencil. It is run by the three great-grandsons of Founder Daniel Berolzheimer. President Edwin, redheaded, mustached, a collector of armor, lately said: "I'm the most active but I am not so active either...