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Ernest Poole: His Family (EBook, 2021, Standard Ebooks)

Roger Gale, a media-monitoring business owner nearing retirement, observes life in early 20th century New …

The old familiar headlines were reappearing side by side — high finance exposures, graft, the antics and didos cut up by the suns and daughters of big millionaires; and after them in cheery succession the Yale-Harvard game, a new man for the Giants, a new college building for Cornell, a new city plan for Seattle, a woman's senator in Arizona and in Chicago a "sporting mayor."

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new vocabulary: dido

A mischievous trick or prank.