Word: nob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what is going...
California gold and Nevada silver built the mansions on Nob Hill (where Mark Twain dreamed of living some day), bought the elegant, satin-lined carriages that rolled over San Francisco's plank streets. They paid for San Franciscans' one-pound gold watches, their champagne (seven bottles to Bostonians' one), their imported building stone from China, accounted as well for San Francisco's 1,000 yearly suicides...
Modern cathedrals, dependent for their growth on donations from the pious, rise slowly-though nothing like as slowly as the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less...
...Temporary Student Employment Plan receives its meaning and value from the principle that, among financially embarrassed students, not only luminaries, but also scholars with a duller but persistent glow will be allowed to tap the streams of knowledge. Thus, while scholarships at Harvard hob-nob only with the Dean's List, T.S.E. jobs reach down to Group V. Granted the validity of this principle, it follows logically that the Temporary Student Employment Plan must be granted its rightful nook in the sun of the University budget...
...quartet, "Uncle" Mark Hopkins was the only one who weighed less than 200 lb. Thin, worried, cautious, lazy, stubborn, plaintive, he ate little meat, drank no liquor and, even as a wealthy man, grew vegetables for his own table, selling the surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony and semiprecious stones. Hopkins died before...