Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm. She had the happy faculty of making friends as easily with Ellen Terry and Rudyard Kipling as with the neighborhood grocer. Her immense audience will treasure this frank account of as vivid and diverse a career as any of her time...
...Luyten 1G will address the Physical Colloquium this afternoon on "The Structure of the Solar Neighborhood" The Colloquium will meet in Room 2 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at 5 o'clock...
...restless fellow looked around for a way to finance his trip. In the Italian quarter prize fighting was in vogue. Many lads from the rough neighborhood were earning comfortable purses. Raggini dreamed that he would become a paladin of the ring and gather enough money to finance his studies, would fight his way with his fists to Parnassus. He practiced boxing and embarked upon a pugilistic career. But his throat was better than his knuckles. Instead of the pugilistic reputation that would have got him large pay, he encountered mostly hard punchings. His own blows were weak, his opponents...
...first three will all last 11 weeks, terminating in the neighborhood of December 10. The final verdict on the surviving editorial candidates will not be given for 13 weeks, however, which will be early in January...
About 117 well-fed motion picture producers are gnashing in the neighborhood of 1,000 gold teeth over the tidings that Rudyard Kipling has parted with the film rights to Kim. The gnashing is particularly reverberant owing to the fact that he has given them to an amateur in the field of flickering drama?and a woman, at that! The woman and the amateur?Miss Maude Adams...