Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hardly had this hubbub died down than the Grand Duke arrived, landed. With him were the Grand Duchess, whom Boris married in Paris six years ago; Mme. Rachevsky, mother-in-law; Princess Natalie, niece; Baron Nicholas Crown, secretary. The Grand Duke-a man just over medium height, 47 years old, with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish...
...held on last year's five, while Leekley moves to forward, displacing Jones. The change has been imminent for some time, as something was needed to bolster the attack which has been the chief trouble so far this season. Not only does this change give the quintet added height and weight, factors which were by no means unimportant in the Columbia defeat, but it will practically double the scoring power of the forward line. Jones' passing and clever floor-work will undoubtedly be missed tonight, but Leekley is a greater scoring threat, and so far in practice has worked well...
...George Bellows, famed artist, at the height of his career, came Death last week. He died in Manhattan after an operation for acute appendicitis. To his bier flocked many celebrated painters, Art patrons, writers-Ignacio Zuloaga, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank Crowninshield, Joseph Hergesheimer, Guy Pepe Du Bois, Joseph Pennell, John Sloane, Robert Henri, Robert W. Chanler, Albert Sterner, Gari Melchers, A. Sterling Calder...
Whenever a great social function takes place, such as a brilliant feast, or some other prandial entertainment, the French are involuntarily reminded of the State banquet given by President Faure to the Tsar of All the Russias in 1896-a costly repast reminiscent of the Roi Soleil at the height of his glory...
Memorial Hall Commons may once again be visited with throngs of students as large as those which crowded the hall at the height of its popularity if rumors which are current about the Yard materialize...