Word: seene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somehow or other the party became a marked success. There was no formal banquet table, no rigid order of precedence. Queen Wilhelmina had seen to that. She knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden would be outranked as a mere treasury official by the several prime ministers and foreign ministers present?and certainly Mr. Snowden would have been furious had he been seated below Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece! Therefore the delegates were seated not at one straight table but at ten round ones. Each statesman might fancy that where he sat was the head...
Even as one who had only seen an ordinary smithy cannot imagine the anvil chorus when the workshop of the gnomes is operating at capacity, so one who has seen an ordinary kitchen has no idea of what the operations will be in such a kitchen as that newly erected in Chicago. To get the full picture in advance, one must go to Camden, see the manicurist who inspects the fingernails of 4,000 workers, see the herds of living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that...
...raise its rediscount rate. Then, late in the afternoon, came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from 5% to 6%. Wall Street was caught unprepared. Tycoons rushed to telephones, brokers called up bankers. Ten members of the Stock Exchange were seen leaving a Broad Street building in one nervous, gesticulating group. Long after the dinner hour two Rolls-Royces still waited outside the austere House of Morgan...
...Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...
...assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...