Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jews, Moslems and Christians attended the slain missionary's funeral, at Basra, last week, stared sympathetically at his young wife and four children...
...Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard a grandparent's plea not to throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly bought) contained a first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue...
Capt. Fried lowered a lifeboat manned by young Chief Officer Harry Manning and eight oarsmen from the crew. The bow oar spoke Italian. In a shrieking wind, a tortured sea, the lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America...
...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 of France and Spain. Then Gieseking played Bach, Schumann...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...