Word: adjoining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain man, must have caused me grief (the notice was headed 'Printed Matter' and contained the statements that my contribution to the art of beautiful letters was only a record of "what the Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances...
...Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...
...Majesty passed a morning last week in superintending the design of a nursery and a cupboard. The "nursery"-a suite of rooms equipped with every appliance for infant culture-will be built to adjoin Her Majesty's own apartments in Buckingham Palace. The cupboard, an ingenious toy stable, will be copied, with a few improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME...
...nearest to the Palmer Stadium. Local trains for New York, stopping at New Brunswick, Jersey City, Newark and other points in northern New Jersey will be sent out from the lower yard. Trains for Philadelphia and southern and western points will leave from the upper train yards, which adjoin the regular Princeton railroad station...