Word: score
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary thing took place. A score of armed men stepped out of ambush. The deputies were ordered to move on, which they did. Then the fusillade, the guilty silence, the "discovery" of two stiff black shapes several hours later...
...Italian army outnumbers the Jugoslav three to one. The Jugoslav navy of 12 destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...
...conceit, gratitude or a mixture of both, one Frances Clyne, Manhattan dressmaker, made arrangements to secure an entire room in the Anderson Galleries, generally hung with several score of paintings, so that she could hang in it one large, lonely painting. Conceit may have been her motive, for the canvas was an oil portrait of herself, its owner. Gratitude may more probably have been her motive, for the picture showed a lovely lady; its maker was Frederic Beltram-Masses whom, since he portrayed her in Spain two years ago, Frances Clyne has been booming as a painter of people...
Physically he is frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass...
When one has been to a production such as the current one at the Shubert, it makes one wonder how the average musical comedy can be stomached. For right in the score of "The Mikado" there is tunefulness enough, fun enough for anyone. When these are nicely manicured and exhibited in the typical Winthrop Ames manner, they form an extremely rare sort of entertainment...