Word: mention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more so, and intimate talks with him (aided and abetted by certain refreshments) even more so still. He describes, apparently accurately, and certainly graphically, the intimate home life of the whale. He jibes with the sharks you mention in saying that killing whales at that time is extremely easy (though he deplores the necessity!). By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain George Fred was a close observer. . . . R. G. M. Flushing, L. I. Trumpeter
Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
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...last week the fragrance of tomatoes drifted through Camden's streets, a new Campbell Kitchen was getting into production in Chicago. As yet the Chicago Kitchen is barely under way, but it covers 22 acres, will have eventually a capacity as great as that at Camden, not to mention the advantage of being one thousand miles nearer the millions of soup-bibbers who dwell west of the Mississippi River...
...week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Due de Troppeau, Prince et Due de Jägerndorf, celebrated...