Word: rarityâ
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...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity???a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
Folk will pay money to stare at any rarity???whether it is a man who plays exceptional tennis, or a woman who can swallow a snake, or a cow with seven legs. It was inevitable, then, that Vera, Countess Cathcart, being the most prominent woman ever kept out of the country for her turpitude, should either compose or appear in a play. She did both. Last week the play, called Ashes of Love, was produced simultaneously in London and in New York (via Washington...
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