Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Hall. One of the finest examples of 18th Century architecture in the U. S., New York's frequently neglected city hall can hold its own with anything in Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston. It contains antique furniture and historical portraits of great importance. Prize: Telegraph Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette...
...Italianate white marble building that the elder J.P. Morgan built to house his treasures became a public trust in 1924. Polite persistence by any visitor will win a free pass from Custodian Belle da Costa Greene to see. besides the books, numerous paintings, prints and drawings that can still hold their own with any of the great U. S. collections, despite numerous sales and gifts to other museums...
...rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned hatbox just about big enough to hold a human head. When the corpse the police are looking for is found without one, the suspicions which Danny's over-solicitude for her aunt have aroused in Olivia begin to be a ghastly certainty...
...Hold to three hits by the opposing pitcher, Johnny Klarmich, the Yardlings were shut out 11 to 0 by the Holy Cross Freshmen at Soldiers Field Saturday. Crimson twirlers, John Woodward and Tom Healey, allowed the enemy only seven hits, while their teammates were committing seven errors in the field...
...fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote his book. With its structure as a sort of travel diary, the book soon becomes a lively commentary on the contemporary...