Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically destroyed in a fire, and had to be largely rebuilt, again with Mr. Eaton's assistance. Mr. Eaton never drinks, seldom smokes, spends much time at home with his art-loving wife and seven children (five girls). A hobby: Reading character from faces...
Goliaths. Giant planes of U. S. manufacture have met with bad luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near...
...Marie Tempest ("the British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...
With a $13,000,000 initial outlay he rebuilt the road from the ground up, put down heavy rails, built new stations, bought comfortable coaches, created an esprit de corps among employes, nine out of ten of whom bought company stock. He reduced the traveling time between...
...himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with his picture, joined him first as mistress, then as wife. She was obliged, for lack of money, to use precious but musty draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There...