Word: sheafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., at 10 a. m. sharp last Friday a group of 40 people, including several newshawks, photographers and sidewalk loungers, assembled for an auction. Bespectacled Trust Officer Sylow Berven of Oakland's Central Bank began to read in a low drone from a thick typewritten sheaf of papers. In 15 minutes his audience had dwindled to ten people. An urchin went around begging nickels, got only one. At 10:49 Mr. Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing. "Do I hear," asked Mr. Berven...
...sixth time in his political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
...leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging evidence against them, she offers to buy out their businesses if they will leave town. Her only friend, an amiable gambler named Buster Niles (James Rennie), knocks down and fatally injures a man who accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis. This gives her enemies a chance...
...gone so far and so fast that the whole business has been rather run into the ground." Eugene Gallatin's interest in art is older than his interest in automobiles as a sport. Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler were his first passions. He collected, studied, and finally wrote a sheaf of books on the elegant Jimmy, but gradually his taste grew more & more advanced, more & more abstract...
...passed the 40th anniversary of her marriage to King Vittorio Emanuele III and in honor of that event last month the papal Osservatore Romano, referring to her for the first time as Empress of Ethiopia, announced that Elena would receive this year's Golden Rose. Last Sunday a sheaf of gold blooms in a silver vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented...