Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight inaccuracy crept into your admirable publication of Aug. 12, p. 59. In mentioning prominent real estate operators you say: "A third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor in his place...
...name was a bitter surprise to the Slovene part of Jugoslavia. It had been promised that Queen Marie's third son would bear a Slovene name (TIME, Aug. 19). Andrew, even when spelled Andreja, is not Slovene but Greek. St. Andrew is the Patron Saint of the Karageorgevitch family, ruling house of Jugoslavia...
...that reason they parted. She went to the nothingness of forgotten characters, while Mayreder went on to his second and third loves. His second love was a virgin who consoled him and was about to introduce him to her father when Stasha, the third love, recently escaped from an insane asylum, snatched him up. The story ends when Mayreder, refusing to murder Dr. Karkos after Stasha specially requests him to do so, finds Stasha herself murdered by the doctor...
...third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick...