Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood for nearly 60 years a sprawly rustic building known as the Casino. Last week the Casino appeared likely to become an issue in New York City politics-a class war issue between Democracy and Aristocracy. The Casino belongs to the city. It was built as an eating place to offset, in a measure, the litter caused by basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check...
Last week the Daily News moved to its new building on the Chicago River. In place of dinginess there is magnificence. Instead of one elevator there are 15; instead of five stories there are 25. A Board of Directors room on the sixth floor is dedicated to the late great Victor Fremont Lawson. Its fine dark panels were taken from his Lake Shore Drive residence, so that the Daily News should have a lasting memory of its onetime chief...
Then to Roseland from Boston and the front rank of U. S. tycoons came Archibald Robertson Graustein, head of the International Paper Co. (now subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.). Great was Mr. Graustein's place and many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate...
...time was ten minutes to six. The ceremony had been scheduled to take place an hour earlier. Until the last moment anxious delegates pawed over the documents making minute emendations? changing commas to semi-colons, changing ands to buts...
Writing of choosing the new Cabinet in Forward, British Labor weekly, Ramsay MacDonald said: "Then will come the unhappy days when for the merit I should like to reward I can find no places vacant, for all those I can fit in I cannot always find the appropriate place. May I be judged sympathetically...