Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend: Adolf Hitler well knows that the least flattering photographs of himself never leave the dark room...
...Chicago the president's office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.-first among U. S. railroads in trackage operated (13,500 miles), fourth in revenue-is a severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
...living in a two-room apartment on tree-shaded America Avenue in Baton Rouge. Charming, quiet, well-liked, she cooks, sews, collects old records and music, reads medieval documents, and modern poetry. Her slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable...
...Beacon Hill drawing room one Saturday afternoon in 1893 an awed young man was introduced in a loud voice to a tiny, asthmatic, homely oldster. The young man was Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 29, recently made assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The old man was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wittiest man of his day, unofficial Boston poet laureate, last surviving petal of the literary flowering of New England. By the next autumn, feeling "like my own survivor," Dr. Holmes had died quietly at 85 in his armchair. It was their only meeting. But of the next New England literary...
...years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in bestowing on hulking, frog-faced Diego Rivera the title of "People's Artist of America." The ceremony and the investiture were of little avail. Rivera never again laid brush to wet plaster...