Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struck between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...
...first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost $40,000.) These things and his magnificent 500-acre home at San Marino will go at his death to the government, together with a trust fund to preserve them and add to them...
...said to be going to California that night and would very much like to see the Harvard team practice. No objection was found and he saw Harvard carefully practicing the flying wedge. Several weeks later when he had reached California, he happened to be sitting in a cafe in San Francisco with another elderly man and unwittingly told the other the new development in Harvard's offense. The only trouble with his disclosure was that a Yale man happened to overhear the conversation and wrote to Walter Camp word for word what he had heard...
...San Antonio...
...San Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...