Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
Down on 42nd Street, workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...
...Detroit there opened the trial of eleven accused Negroes and at the table reserved for defense counsel appeared that baggy figure in grey, with his hands in his pockets, that has become such a landmark in the public eye. Clarence Darrow, in his eternal grey suit, with his hands thrust in his pockets, was sporting a bright blue shirt, white collar, black...
...Post has become such a landmark with the public, that uninformed persons mention with awe the possible price of a page advertisement and sometimes mention fabulous sums. For the past five years recorded above, the cost of a full-page advertisement in black and white has been $7,000; in two colors, $8,500. Under the new rates, effective beginning with the issue of Feb. 6, 1926, each of these rates is increased $500, to $7,500 and $9,000. The prices for other kinds of advertisement will be: back cover, $15,000; centre spread (two pages...
...wherever he may be in the flesh, it has become henceforth difficult to discuss religion without using Fosdick as a landmark, definition, implication. Why is this? What happened between the youthful suburban pastorate and the pinnacle of middle-aged fame...