Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landscapes of Camille Pissarro, French impressionist, scarcely paid for their own paint. When he died in 1903, he left a studio cluttered with his own work and that of his friends (Mary Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Cezanne). Until last week these were kept as mementos by the Pissarro family. Then they sold them at auction in Paris. The total return was about...
...will Pulitzer left extraordinary benefactions, most of them secret. Among them was a provision setting aside a percentage of the total net revenue of both the World and the Post-Dispatch, to be divided annually between a certain few executives, in addition to their salaries...
...There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over 2,000,000 barrels. Total 1926 production of about 770,000,000 barrels left a surplus of about 25,000,000 barrels. Inasmuch as the oil industry had been overproducing every year since 1918, there were on hand large surplus stocks of oil. During 1927, production increased to about 900,000,000 barrels. Furthermore, new wells are being constantly discovered. Only last week...
...border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mex., would have to pay 5? extra to call the citizens of Laredo, Tex., the inhabitants of Nuevo Laredo became annoyed with the telephone company and took thought for a revenge. Three hundred of them, last week, removed their receivers from their hooks and left them there, thus paralyzing the service...
...Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...