Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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YARD-WALES WINS YOUNGER SET." More dinners in the Inns that eve- ning-more mellow vintages and rare good fellowship. At the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor toasted Coolidge. Friday there were receptions at Sul- grave Manor, seat of George Washington's family; an Astor garden party; a reception in Westminster Hall by Lord Haldane and four onetime Lord Chancellors-Birkenhead, Cave, Finlay, Buckmaster. Saturday, Oxford and Cambridge Universities competed with the Naval Review at Spithead for entertainment honors. Brasenose College, Oxford, received payment of a 17-shilling debt entered in its books against Lawrence, father of George Washington...
More dinners in the Inns?more mellow vintages and rare good fellowship...
...Venetian palace, surrounded by rare, beautiful and very precious treasures of Art−a collection estimated second only to that of John Pierpont Morgan−Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston died at the age of 85. Fenway Court is one of the most glorious monuments to American wealth. Its marble Renaissance doorway opens to the public a few days each year. Virtually all of the stones in the structure were brought from Venice. Around the central court are balconies brought from the Ca' d'Oro, the most beautiful Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The pavement...
...rare thing for a Cathedral to be built in Britain. Immortal centuries have fled since the great days of Sir Christopher Wren, but, apparently, the art of Cathedral-building has not been lost. Liverpool Cathedral is the largest ecclesiastical building in Britain, being inferior only to St. Peter's at Rome, and Seville Cathedral in Spain. Moreover, it is said to be the finest example of Gothic architecture in the world, "as impressive as York Minster, as powerful as St. Paul's, as serene as Westminster...
Five historic American murders presented in rare literary style...