Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
Thirty years ago, at her home in Havana, Mme. Rosalie Abreu began to collect live monkeys. She kept them in cages but under conditions as close as possible to nature. She brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing...
Some years ago a Dutch engineer swore that he had seen these monsters. Men disbelieved him. They might not have believed Aviator Cobham. But two years ago William Douglas Burden of Manhattan led out an expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...
Cleveland society treated them frigidly and they went to London to live. There they and their wealth were welcomed. The Prince of Wales and crowds of lesser no bility attended Mrs. Corrigan's parties...
...know," he said, settling himself in his chair, "I live in Greenwich. Connecticut. Well, about two years ago, my own house burnt down, and I had it rebuilt. I moved in with my family though before the workmen were through and well, the play is just a dramatization of my summer vacation. And then, lots of the other things, the Junior Dance and so forth that I mention in the play they actually do have them in Greenwich...