Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lot of a buffer State is proverbially hard. The Secretary to the President is a buffer State between his master and a horde of graspers who swoop down on the White House with endless demands. The Secretary needs diplomacy and a study of defense...
...Harding's final illness was undoubtedly brought on by his strenuous exertions on the last few day of his trip, especially his arduous day at Seattle after landing from his Alaskan journey. Indirectly his death at this time may undoubtedly be traced to excessive work which fell to his lot as President. His death, following the severe illness of President Wilson produced by the same cause, has led to many suggestions that the duties of the Presidency be divided so that they should not fall with their full heaviness upon...
...paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...
...scheme of the Association is briefly this: The artist members and the lay members are equally divided. Each lay member pays $600 annually, for which he is entitled to one work of art, chosen by him in the order of his rank by lot. The artists donate one work annually for a period of three years. Some of the world's greatest artists are numbered in the group, whose works would command anywhere several times $600. On the other hand, there are many comparatively young and unknown, to whom this excellent plan comes as a godsend in marketing their wares...
...page turns back and we see them from boyhood on?friends in youth?then separated?then casually coming together again?the interwoven skeins of the two lives from youth to age. Oddities of temperament, accidents, wives interrupted the friendship?no theatrical Damon-and-Pythias sacrifices fell to the lot of either, exactly? but the friendship endured. Why, precisely ? Neither could have defined all the reasons for it. Neither tried. But it was the root of their lives. An excellent novel, original in theme...