Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
Eventually Harvard will probably have several "inner colleges." Then in Cambridge, Mass., will have risen an institution similar to Oxford University in England...
...groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
Deputies and Senators of the Chilean Congress were circularized, last week, by the American Smelting and Refining Co. The circulars declared that only the most deplorable results can be expected if the Chilean Government takes action under the law empowering them to impose a tax similar in effect to a "protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests...
...high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai, "smaller by a tenth" - for the Empress. Pedastals and chairs were lacquered jet black...