Word: heirlooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Reverently the financier turned the crackly pages, gravely he viewed an inset miniature of Sir Geoffrey with two ladies. Presently he laid the Psalter down, said that it ought not leave England...
...Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City had been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...
...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
...Post and The Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. Curtis turned to newspapers. First he took the two Public Ledgers (morning and evening) of Philadelphia. Last January he reached out to Manhattan and bought the New York Evening Post. In taking control of the Post he took possession of an heirloom. On the list of its editors and owners were Alex ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper...
...possible that in her ambition for intellectual supremacy Harvard has forgotten the physical side of her students? Is the Stillman Infirmary merely a sanctuary for the weary, or has it a superior function? Is the medical advisory department conducted on modern principles, or is it a traditional heirloom? The virtue in medical advice does not rest essentially in its ability to suggest a way to a cure, as in its ability to ward off disease. Does the medical advice received at Harvard perform either of these...