Word: august
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer nodded; Shakespeare gave Bohemia a seacoast; Michelangelo painted Adam with a navel. Last week the august New York Times slipped and fell. Readers of the Times read a pathetic story about a deer, frightened, running for its life through the streets of Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic...
...credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
...escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder called the toast for "His Majesty our Exalted War Lord...
...Amazreen, W. O. Aydelotte, F. R. Bacon, S. L. Batchelder. August Belmont, H. A. Bettman, F. E. Bissell Jr., A. G. Bullock, F. M. Burke, J. B. Campbell, W. D. Carter, W. P. Chapman, R. W. Chasteney, S. D. Clarke, D. I. Cooke, D. N. Crofoot, Dudley Davis Jr., D. C. Dennett, M. M. DePicabia, E. J. DesRoches, Harmon Duncombe, R. G. Edwards, B. A. Fairbank, J. P. Faude, D. C. Forbes, E. E. Ford, A. M. Freiberg, R. C. Friend, J. G. Frothingham...
...same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such quotations as 238 for U. S. Steel, 395 for General Electric, 349 for Detroit Edison. In September Shenandoah had announced an intensive selling campaign by which Shenandoah and Goldman Sachs Trading...