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...premises of the American Antiquarian Society be investigated, as well as the rooms of eminent private collectors? How do we know that the jealousy of some other city--Worcester, Springfield, Hartford--may not have inspired the crime? So the lovers of old sanctities asked. Whoever did this deed is no common criminal. He has committed sacrilege. He has pillaged a shrine. Not since the mutilation of the Hermae at the other Athens has such an infamy been perpetrated. Friday the Cod was returned. Where is the Codnapper? --New York Times...
...June 1932, he told the graduating class at Scarborough School (at Scar-borough-on-Hudson near his home) that history was not properly taught. He had a right to do so: a year later he presented the school with a deed of gift to the school building and property...
...pool with many of her beautifully-limbed compatriots, and the various versions of this rumor are both exciting and legion. Then too there is the good-will bestowed upon the House by the no longer existing Adams House of Boston, a hostel long famous for its good cheer, the deed for which is in the House archives. Besides these more or less authentic representations, there is an air of glamorous mystery which still clings to the palaces of the Gold Coast, an atmosphere which cannot be sensed until lived...
Italian Backfire. Dr. Benes, to whom the arts & wiles of propaganda are second nature, was accused last week of turning to France (longtime ally of the Little Entente countries) to produce a sensation which would divert Europe from his deed...
Matt Brush likes to give parties, with stunts. He collects elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...