Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wouldn't dream of publishing that story for worlds, Mrs. Park Lane, because everyone on the staff thinks so much of you and your charming daughter. By the way, her début will take place next month, will it not? We might be able to use her photograph as a frontispiece for that issue. . . . Now about this stock subscription. Some of the very smartest people in town have invested in our magazine. The shares are $100 each. Of course, if you don't wish to take as much as 25 shares...
...thoughtfulness. Gold standards have been dropped, statesmen have grown suddenly old, banks have failed, nations have rotted on the vine of empire. Such are the things which make men show and thoughtful. Economists are bewildered by economics, reason has not led the world to reason, depression seems a long lane down which there is no corner. And on this lane the Vagabond must leave you. All that he might say has been said before, that which he could do no man would do. But it is his hope that these forces which have made the idiom false and empty...
...Trinity Sunday, 1925, Matt Talbot fell dead in Granby Lane, Dublin, in the 70th year of his life. His emaciated body was uncovered. Around it, imbedded in his flesh, was a rusty cart chain. On his arms and legs were chains and ropes. He had worn them secretly, continually for twelve years, save in 1923 when, taken ill, he was careful to remove them before going to a hospital. Said Father Talbot, reporting the event in America a year later: "There are no accidents in this universe. Matt Talbot's sudden heart attack and his instantaneous death were Divinely...
...midst of this curious controversy, from the peace of his porticoed yellow mansion "Avalon" in Princeton's Bayard Lane, emerged 79-year-old Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the community's resident Grand Old Man, minister, Wartime Navy chaplain, litterateur (Fisherman's Luck, The Man Behind the Book). He came not to comment on the alleged "smoothie complex" but he had heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful...
This year there are to be five bouts in foils, which will be as follows: Gilbert Kerlin '33 vs. H. C. Cassidy '31: Henry Wesselman '30 vs. J. G. Hurd '34; E. H. Lane vs. E. L. Lane; F. S. Righeimer, Intercollegiate Champion for 1928, vs. Joseph Levis, Amateur National Champion; Peroy vs. Levis; R. B. Lawson '32 vs. Peroy-sabre; Righelmer vs. Levis, epee...