Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential table-chat was the story appearing in Collier's for Jan. 26. This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the government conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...
...Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will play by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. MacKinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
...announced yesterday by Davidson Summers 2L, graduate secretary of the Union. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will give by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. Mackinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
Forthwith Colonel Stewart returned from Manhattan to Chicago with the words: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight. . . . I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that I owe fully as much to the person holding ten shares of Standard Oil of Indiana . . . as I may owe one who has so much wealth that he has to hire experts to spend his income...
...with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards...