Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission. The initial chapter of the book, "On The Art of Walking the Streets of London", is a delightful essay which could well stand by itself in any volume. "The revelations of the court of George I. of Walpole, of the run of speculation which ended in the South Sea Bubble, make excellent reading...
...railroad. He didn't like (he said) the way the Pittsburgh & Virginia was run (it had gone through several receiverships), so be bought it. Later he acquired large holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie and has since been attempting to put together the lake-to-sea system which George Gould had begun...
...Author is eleven years dead. Born in 1855 in Courland, a Russian province on the Baltic Sea. he went to a Gymnasium...
...Grills? With each other they feel very much alone. For Hans there is always one escape. He is a painter. He has a model he paints by day and loves by night?the sea. The beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was wife of a hoary old ambassador. Then people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that...
...Patricia" arrived today after the sea trip from Boston. The weather conditions favored the big Harvard launch with a comparatively easy voyage and it concluded its extended run apparently none the worse for its battle with the elements...