Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled out proverbs with colored blocks: BE GOOD AND YOU'LL BE LONESOME. EARLY TO BED. EARLY TO RISE AND YOU'LL NEVER MEET ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE. Florenz Ziegfeld bought a white wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give to the Boston Zoo. A nameless, snarling Montana coyote, exhibited by its owner, Fred Smidlap of Lakewood, N. J., was said to be "an unusually interesting...
...truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame...
Until the present no distinction other than academic has been made between Engineering and College undergraduates. All the traditions of Harvard rise in protest against such a division, a separation on the basis of vocation rather than of natural affinities. At present, as far as can be learned, the majority of Engineering School students room with men in the College. It is imperative that these be not still further excluded from this valuable series of contacts outside the scientific laboratory merely by their choice of profession...
...newsprint is bought from the great International (more than twice as big as its nearest competitor), from Great Northern Paper Co., Canada Power & Paper Corp., Abitibi Power & Paper Co. International is not making money on its pulp product but it denied last week that it was planning a price rise, professed ignorance of what the publishers' resolution might mean...
Mann of Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...