Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said a Portraitist Leonebel Jacobs: "Small . . . poised ... sophisticated . . . cosmopolitan . . . elusive." Men were speechless at first, then snared. She saw Koo. Her father saw his father. She married him. He came to Washington as Minister. Her money paid 26 servants, paid for gowns, motors, took the Koos on to the Court of St. James's, bought a private palace in London, furnished a smart apartment few knew about, left Mrs. Koo free to get whatever else she wanted in her own illogical compelling fashion...
...Diller, Manhattan, (best text writer)-They Saw Europe on Dimes-for Manufacturers National Bank, Troy...
...sharp-eyed newsgatherer saw that Dr. Abbott's name and pledge for $1,000 headed a posted list of subscribers for a new Lawrenceville dormitory. It was tangible evidence to bear out Dr. Abbott's gruff, nervous statement: "I have put eight years of ceaseless devotion into it, trying to make it the best school in the country...
...HAVE A FINE FUNERAL- Pierre La Maziere- Brentano's ($2). What if a clerk, after drudging in J. P. Rockerbilt & Co. for 20 years, seized his chance to embezzle $10,000 and soon ran it into six figures by playing the stock market as he saw his superiors secretly playing it? What if he then confessed his peculation to the bank president, tendering his check for the stolen sum, plus interest, and showing by his bank book that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because...
Although in the Columbia game Harvard held the lead with a score of 13 to 10 at the end of the first half, the second period saw Columbia creep up to a lead which was held until...