Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sinewy entourage told with a grin how the Viceroy had passed en route through the territory of the insignificant and torpid Rajah of Jubbal. Polite surprise that the Englishmen had ventured so far afield to hunt was the Potentate's first reaction. But when informed that they had left their sporting guns behind and were merely out for exercise, the Rajah of Jubbal became morose, evinced incredulity, and was clearly worried as to possible designs upon his little raj by a snooping Big White Viceroy...
...prosperous solidarity of the A. E. G. that its securities did not so much as flutter upon the German bourse, last week, when kindly Dr. Deutsch was smitten down by heart failure. Since great secrecy always surrounds the details of large German fortunes, no estimate of the estate left by Dr. Deutsch can be made; but his annual salary income as a director of more than 40 corporations was not less than...
Most of the fine or the expensive pictures which are sold abroad (see below) are bought by wealthy U. S. collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...
...Britons mourn because they have 'lost $250,000,000 in antique art.' They ought to rejoice because they have gained 250,000,00 modern dollars and use some of that money to develop or revive art in their own country. They have plenty of art left, in museums, and it doesn't matter whether Raphael's Madonna and Child stays in the private house of Lady Desborough, or moves to Millionaire John Snooks' home in America. In either case it is wasted...
Chair Talk. To the editors of Liberty went a letter (published last week) from Senator Carter Glass, 70, of Virginia. It read: "There has been left on my desk a copy of Liberty, dated April 28, containing what purports to be an interview with me by Sidney Sutherland on the subject of the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. I desire to warn you that the purported interview, almost from the beginning to the end of it, is inaccurate and largely fictitious. ... I have usually managed to think and talk as a gentleman should...