Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel's 6,500 manicured acres, rode over its 200 miles of bridle paths, played golf on its three courses, lounged in rooms that will cost paying customers from $17 to $65 a day. The windup was a glittering ball in the chandelier-hung ballroom. At its height, the Duke of Windsor, a good amateur hand at the drums, joined Meyer Davis's band and beat the skins (How Are Things in Glocca Morra?) as he did when he visited Greenbrier 29 years...
High jump--Won by Jenkins (H); 2, Harrigan (H); 3, Hauptfuhrer (H); 4, Maze (BU). Height: 6 feet...
Pole vault--Won by Lockett (H); the for second between Lawrence (H) and Sherman (RIS). Height: 12 feet, six inches...
From 1892 to 1904 Chekhov, then at the height of his fame, kept a set of unpretentious workbooks. In them he jotted judgments brief and sufficient as a child's ("He who tells lies is dirty"). He sketched ideas for Stories, many of which he never wrote. Readers can wonder for themselves what Chekhov might have done with this synopsis: "A radical lady, who crosses herself at night, is secretly full of prejudice and superstition, hears that in order to be happy one should boil a black cat by night. She steals a cat and tries to boil...
...middle place there are the Owners; and thou shalt know them by their great height and their garments of Shark Skin; but thou shalt breed them...