Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preference should be given to those classes which are holding class reunions in the following spring. Thus, next year, the Class of '99, which will be holding its twenty-fifth reunion will be given first choice. To those classes which are not holding reunions, seats would be assigned by lot, as formerly...
Taken together it appears that the Press, undisputed as its power is, has only succeeded in making the muddy election water a whole lot muddier. Anything may happen...
...sharp rise in future contracts for cotton has greatly stimulated speculative interest throughout the South. The result has been that unscrupulous individuals in Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating...
...husband, finding himself incompetent to steer the situation, summons reinforcements. The latter materialize as the little scarlet sister of the evening. The play is too entirely well-bred to permit the husband to cast his lot with hers. Therefore, another set of epigrams is required to rewind their domestic top and set it spinning...
...father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth ten millions in her own right' and ' reputed a beauty.' Fourthly, Miss Alice Muriel Astor ('five millions is not such a lot with which to model a kingdom,' said the News, ' but it would be sufficient to finance a vice crusade on Sofia's night life'). Fifthly, Mimi Brokaw, ' one of the season's debutantes,' who ' being extremely young, the idea of queening...