Word: levied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west of the Mississippi. Gourmets...
Having just read TIME of April 10 "A fine old beer-song like 'Solomon Levi' originated in Cambridge,'' and knowing your penchant for accuracy, you might be interested in the history of ''Solomon Levi...
WISH TO ENTER PROTEST AGAINST,. STATEMENT THAT OLD SONG SOLOMON LEVI ORIGINATED IN CAMBRIDGE STOP THERE ARE SOME TIMEWORTHY THINGS NOT TO BE CREDITED TO HARVARD YALE OR PRINCETON STOP SOLOMON LEVI COMPOSED AT HOBART COLLEGE IN GENEVA STOP YOUR OUTLINE OF COLLEGE BEER MADE ME HOMESICK...
...name was made up from my father's first name, Levi, and the first name of his partner Solomon. Neither of them was of Jewish extraction, and at that time they owned and conducted the leading private girls' school in Cleveland, Ohio, which had the old-fashioned name of The Cleveland Female Seminary...
Every student might thus express his personal opinion. The collective attitude of the university student body would then be clearly placed before the eyes of the public. Robert Levi...