Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be a real nuisance, I can tell you." Upon further Health Department warning, he closed his Emanuel Institute...
First Day. The "pastel dawn" was of course, at Friedrichshafen, Germany. In moving north, the ship circled Berlin before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
Coates Off. Conductor Albert Coates of London finished his guest-conducting of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan, 80 minutes before his boat sailed for Europe one night last week. He still had time to make a speech, and said, "It isn't an orchestra. It's a miracle." Knowing ones credited tireless Willem von Hoogstraten, summer director...
...times he said I had lost my looks. At other times he said I had nothing but looks to recommend me. He said I took no interest in his interests. He said also that I insisted on thrusting myself into all of them. He said I was spiritless, or temperamental; had no moral sense or was a prude. He said he wanted to marry the woman he really loved; and, that once rid of me, he would not marry anyone else...
Felix M. Warburg gave $500,000 toward a fund to establish the finance corporation, was elected head of the administrative committee. The corporation, he said "must be conducted . . . by a board which tries its best for the shareholders. The business must be conducted calmly, without hysterics or indiscretion...