Word: palling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...
...find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable...
...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...release which connotes glad forgetfulness of the whirring wheels, the leisured freedom in first acquirement, and the resolution and at least partial digestion of facts that come with the comprehensive answering of final examinations still give the present system a ruddy healthfulness that goes ill with President Holts proffered pall of death...