Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer...
April 13-17-World conference on work for the blind; at New York. Main object: to organize international research. May i-National Child Health Day. Music...
...schools and by tutoring and cramming, "shoe-horned" into college. Mr. Winsor has outlined the kind of secondary education which he believes these boys should receive. It would prepare them not for college but for life: yet probably many such students would find themselves qualifying, in spite of its main purpose, for easy entrance into college. New York Times...
Familiar are the main facts of his life: He was born a king. His blood is the most reactionary in Europe?both Habsburg and Bourbon. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His son & heir suffered for years from haemophilia (easy bleeding), was never expected to live for the succession, but is now apparently cured. Graven on the public mind is the fact that Alfonso plays polo a great deal, likes gunning and sailing, drives an automobile very fast...
...Hamburg-American Line runs a series of cruises to the former "Spanish Main" (West Indies) on which each passenger is certified to be a "Pleasure Pirate...