Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Boni offered $35,000, and again the deal was made-but not signed. Clemenceau said he must notify the other bidder which was, he said, the New York Times. He agreed to give Publisher Boni a chance to match any higher...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Thomas Hastings, architect, of the firm of Carrere & Hastings, in Manhattan. In. a crowded memorial chapel, his coffin stood covered by autumn leaves overlaid with roses. Beside it, the Cross of the Legion of Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
...presented to the state legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions were passed in favor of a uniform motor vehicles law, a uniform "blue sky" law (controlling sales of securities...
...they were trying to get rid of them even more frantically than they had tried to get them. Stocks bought without reference to their earnings were being sold without reference to their dividends. At around noon there came the no-bid menace. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the "dumped" shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points between sales-losing from 2 to 10 points before a buyer could be found for them. Sound stocks at shrunk prices-and nobody to buy them. It looked as if U. S. Industries' little partners were...
...which collectors have sometimes paid as much as $5,000 a plant. In the tropics orchids are found as brilliant patches of color at the top of high peaks or hidden in luxurious forests. In northern climates their reproduction and culture is an exacting scientific task over which specialists must labor for the seven years that elapse between the time the orchid seed is planted and the day the flower bursts into bloom...