Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
...abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were...
...Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
After an habitual smoker stops, says Dr. Dorsey, his senses of smell and taste become acute. Appetite shows marked improvement. "Nervous, undernourished young women in particular are sometimes seen to undergo a renaissance. . . . Likewise the tense, active, tired man often improves his state of health...
...backers, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and was made its chairman. Key to her salesmanship was the ticket coupon book, available in any amount to Guild members only, the coupons redeemable at the Metropolitan box-office or at Guild headquarters against their value in tickets. Not restricted to a particular day of the week nor to a particular section of the Opera House, the coupons, coupled with the Guild's telephone reservation service, became the first painless system of obtaining opera tickets for those who could not afford to be season subscribers. In return for the $10 membership premium...