Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third son of George V, the Duke of Gloucester, was in South Africa when recalled. Since his speedy return was not vital he took an ordinary "mail steamer," the Balmoral Castle, from Cape Town, was expected to reach London slightly before Christmas...
...worthless stock by promising them dividends of from 15 to 80 per cent. She went into bankruptcy, last week, with assets of 22,000 francs ($858) and known liabilities of 219,000,000 ($8,541,000); but even a hasty investigation showed that she had probably mulcted widows, small town businessmen and country priests of not less than half a billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city and town of consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names...
...Dear Flo Ziegfeld: . . . What, my dear Flo, is your secret? . . . Thank you, my dear Flo Ziegfeld, for the musical comedy the town's been waiting for. . . ." -Robert Garland, in the Telegram...
...might have been tempted to question his initial premise of Harvard-Yale rivalry two years ago or one but not in December 1928, with the recollection of a glorious afternoon in the Bowl still extremely new. Dartmouth is in town and now and then gets scalped and the joy of the University still does not overstep too far the margins set by indifference. But fifty years of opposition more than half of them alternately as host and as guest, have set a unique seal on Harvard's meetings with Yale...
Innumerable duets will find a luminescent cosiness in the La Salle-Fisher special convertible town car, glistening with greens, pale yellows and silver after The Conversation by Watteau...