Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first friends we found in New York was Bukharin who had just been expelled from Scandinavia. . . . He welcomed us with childish exuberance. Although the hour was late and we were fatigued from the journey Bukharin insisted on taking me and my wife to see the New York Library...
...late great John Pierpont Morgan once sat for his portrait. Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27, waiting for him. Mr. Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken...
...singing contest. How the prize was lost but Mr. Connolly's bride was won is a story which becomes a bit too long in the last act. It involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight of his less extravagant relatives...
...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...
Engaged. Nancy Susan Reynolds, 18, daughter of late Tobaccoman R. J. Reynolds; and Henry Walker Bagley, 24, of Atlanta and Manhattan; at Winston Salem, N. C. Fortnight ago her brother Zachary Smith Reynolds, 17, married Miss Anne L. Cannon, 19, at York...