Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees or powdering their noses...
...aroused were the buyers by the fourth day's display that they furnished almost $500,000 for the remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier...
...excitedly to policemen, firemen. According to report his words were: "Something terrible is happening in my cellar! The furnace has gone flooey! It's going to explode!'' Policemen lumbered. Firemen dashed. In the Longworth furnace, they discovered a broken water coil, ripped it out. Mrs. Longworth, "fourth lady of the land" (see p. 7), served coffee & perfectos...
Undergraduate opinion on whether or not a newspaper should be restricted in the publication of news will be determined this evening, when the Harvard Debating Union holds the fourth of its series of regular bi-weekly meetings in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. The question is: "Resolved. That this house believes that newspapers should be restrained by legislative enactment from publishing murder trials and sex cases...
...professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...