Word: whose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singer was Gabriel Mirabeau, a boy of 15 with a stocky figure and a face that bore marks of the pox in puffy profusion. His audience was his tutor, to whose reprovals he was retorting. Indignant, the tutor reported the cause of the reproval to Mirabeau Sr.: "Must I confess to you, Monsieur, that his ways have already forced me to dismiss two maids...
...legacy and her advice, which he followed, that he substitute paying patients for charity ones. Society, the married state and the world outside Roper's Row claimed Chris Hazzard. Thus ends the saga of a man reared by his mother, raised by his wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience of medicine, which he practiced before and during the World War. Deeping's previous Sorrell and Son was rated part and parcel of Anglo-Saxon realism...
...routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying. He works for Boeing Air Transport, most of whose pilots were previously in the difficult Air Mail Service...
...which he is interested should suddenly be demolished, one U. S. electric light out of every ten would go dark. The investor in Shenandoah is virtually turning his money over to Sidney Weinburg and Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs and to Harrison Williams of Central States Electric Corp. -men whose names are million-dollar assets in billion-dollar industries...
...year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When he does sail again he will go to live and die in Polynesia, "most perfect country...