Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis Cartier of Paris, red .cheeked and affable, visited in Manhattan his brother Pierre with whom he conducts the international jewelry firm of Cartiers. Dangling a model of the Kohinoor, he said: "The great diamonds of the world are vanishing. There are only ten of the first class between 100 and 200 carats and no more than 250 of the second class between 50 and 100 carats. There are many, many more prospective purchasers than that...
...ten days before the Hoover arrival in Miami, police went to the Coral Gables Kennel Club and arrested Restaurant Cashier Willis Callahan, Dancing Teacher Thomas Mulligan, Tailorman Jacob B. Sommers. They were charged with "conspiring to do bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained...
Many a first name has been dropped with fame. Kreisler needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly...
...interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...
What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...