Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although he is weaponless Siegmund is forced to accept and Hunding goes to bed after drinking a long draft of ale. Sieglinde, who had earlier been ordered from the room, reappears and tells Siegmund to try and draw from a great oak the sword which was thrust in it by the Gods. Siegmund, with a mighty effort, draws the sword and thereby proves that he is Sieglinde's brother and the greatest warrior on earth...
...Manhattan, 3,000 persons paid $1 each for the privilege of inspecting the onetime residence of William Kissam Vanderbilt, soon to be demolished. A cinema, an orchestra, stars from the Metropolitan Opera Company, provided diversion for those who wished to sit in the great oak-beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed...
Last week Death, enemy of elegance, marched up the dark oak stairs of a house in Grosvenor Square, London, and snuffed out the breath of an old gentleman who lay in bed there, his bleak face upturned to the ceiling. Next day The New York Times published his picture: "Lord Ribblesdale, husband of the late John Jacob Aster's first wife, who died yesterday...
...Davis, J. A., '27 22 183 5.10 Center Exeter Starrett, C. R., '26 22 180 6.1 1/2 Back Worcester Sprague, W. F., '27 21 178 5.11 Center Revere H. S. Reece, E. M., '28 20 160 5.9 Back Peekskill H. S. Loomis, R. H., '26 21 175 5.11 Back Oak Park H. S. Oberlander, S., '26 20 196 6. Back Everett H. S. Sage, J. C., '26 21 161 5.8 End Easton...
...Finney, of Johns Hopkins University, Vice Chairman; Judge John H. Dewitt, of Nashville; Edward Dickinson Duffield, President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark; President Cheesman A. Merrick, Girard College, Philadelphia; Judge Nelson H. Loomis, general counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha; Judge Nathan G. Moore, Oak Park, 111.; Robert E. Speer,* Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, Manhattan...