Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thinking of ways to call Boston's attention to all this, Curator Tomita and Director Edgell hit upon the notion of borrowing a lot more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest...
...them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down extravagant plans for a sewer system; a rich Indian named Eagle Catoosa...
Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...
...Names make news." Last week these names made these news: In Northampton, Mass. "The Beeches," home of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, has been for sale since last winter. Last week it was revealed that Mrs. Coolidge. now touring in Denmark, had purchased a large lot opposite the Northampton home of her good friend & fellow tourist, Mrs. Florence B. Adams, with whom she has been living...
...hanging was scheduled for dawn (5:12 a. m.). By 3 a. m. the lot near the Ohio River where the scaffold was erected overflowed with 10,000 men, women and children. Hawkers squeezed their way through the crowd selling pop, hot dogs. Telephone poles and trees were festooned with spectators. By 4:30 a. m. the crowd crushed through the wire fence around the scaffold. Police had a hard time getting Phil Hanna from Illinois, whose knowledge of knots has made him a distinguished necessity at 80 hangings, to the gallows. Businesslike, he tested the trap three times, found...