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...City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase from the Heseltine collection. Cultivating the friendship of art experts like the National Gallery's Director Sir Charles Holmes, who could never understand how "a man of such essential goodness could have amassed a fortune...
...education for a nominal sum aggregating far less than the actual cost of that education. Also, they have felt that the College represented a conservative force in the United States which was infinitely valuable during many years of stress and struggle, a force which advanced steadily on an even keel despite upheavals which were apparent on all sides...
...Washington Naval Treaty expires at midnight Dec. 31, 1936. Until that time no signatory nation may lay a keel in violation of treaty limits. Viscount Monsell announced last week that between now and then the Admiralty will assemble machinery, gun mountings, hull materials for an extra-Treaty armada whose keels may thus be legitimately laid next New Year's day. Proposed new tonnage included...
...with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad. In at least three places there was less than four feet of water between Queen Mary's keel and the river...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...