Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Standard, done to music by Jacques Ibert, with settings by Nicolas Remisoff who designed a park with blue trees and pink water. Ruth Page was an alluring young heroine in leg-of-mutton sleeves and a big straw hat. She danced away fleetly with an elderly merchant because his hind pockets bulged with gold. But at the end she was back with her young lover, whirling in a mad cancan. Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy it required to attempt to emancipate opera...
...Thomas Ridpath of Liverpool for $600. By that time the 1¢ British Guiana stamp had become known and Count Phillipe la Renotiere von Ferrari, biggest stamp collector in Europe, bought it from Ridpath for $750. In 1922 the Ferrari collection was sold in Paris. The late Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y. bought the famed stamp for $32,500, offered it as a present to Philatelist George V. The King of England graciously declined to accept...
Last week it became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance...
With Senator La Follette and Governor Schmedeman sitting on the platform be hind him at Green Bay, the President with the grace of a tight-rope walker ringingly declared...
...bony white mongrel was no longer crawling on his mat. He was walking, slowly, with stiff, dragging hind legs and vacant eyes. He ate regularly but without enthusiasm. Dr. Cornish realized that part of the dog's brain was still dead, might remain so for months or years of apathetic existence...