Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
...next morning everything was arranged. The dowager Countess agreed to meet "those terrible Canadians." The new Earl drove to his castle in the village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little black box in his hand. Diffidently, Earl Fred took the little box from the butler, and the patient Trimmers sighed with relief. Their friend was officially installed Lord of the Manor...
Elizabeth Eastdown, of Higham, England, celebrated her 82nd birthday last week. The event would undoubtedly have been overlooked by the press but for the fact that she was once maidservant to Author Charles Dickens and celebrated her birthday by showing visitors a tea set he gave...
...Francisco, the Southern Pacific R.R. was adjudged guilty of adding 80 pounds to the weight of a female passenger. Aboard a Southern Pacific ferry, Mrs. Elsie Rea, 20, fell. Injuries to thyroid and pituitary glands set in motion chemistry that raised her weight from 145 to 225 pounds. Damages for plaintiff...
...favor of having dinners on time? Will you arrive punctually at the hour set? Will you get to dances on time? If you accept a dinner invitation will you really attend...