Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...
Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000...
His Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles.
Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at...
¶ "He had an intense appreciation of the good things of life; good wine, good music, were appreciated to the full; his capacity for enjoyment was not marred by any pangs of doubt as to whether the course he happened to be pursuing was right. It was always right-always...