Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor O'Keefe and other officials standing by. There were bouquets, compliments and invitations for Mademoiselle. For M. 1'Ambassadeur there was an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Loyola University, such as was given to le Maréchal Foch some years ago. Then they set out with Maurice de Simonin, the French consul-general, for the small towns and villages-Donaldsonville, Napoleonville, St. Martinville, New Iberia, in the bayou country...
...Scare" was set palpitating in the Commons by Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, pious and reactionary Home Secretary...
...directs the Paris bureau of the New York Times. He is pungent, direct, slangy-and yet he loves nice things. For example he has a penchant for sheer shirts of purest silk embroidered: "E. L. J." Recently stocky dynamic Correspondent James threw his shirts together in Paris and set out for Rome...
Therefore Polish connoisseurs of execution regretted the abrupt dismissal of Hangman Maciejewski last week. They set up his reputation for conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...