Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poodles fresh from curl-papers, flat-faced Pekingese, great phlegmatic Danes, almost-forgotten pugs, dappled Dalmatians with no coaches to run under-2,142 dogs, of 78 varieties, competed in Madison Square Garden last week in the Westminster Kennel Club's 53rd annual dog show...
From Philadelphia came the broadside of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher of the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Satevepost. Publisher Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...
...GREENE MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribners ($2). In a queer old mansion at 53rd Street and the East River, Manhattan, murder was as plentiful as dust under the bed. First, Julia, eldest Greene daughter, was shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother...
...York. Governor Alfred E. Smith, at the executive mansion in Albany on his 53rd birthday, was sworn into office for his fourth term...
...father. The son is Arthur Hammerstein, famed Manhattan theatrical producer, son of Oscar, famed impresario. He will erect a "Temple of Music," 15 stories high, to be used for light operas and musical shows "of a distinctive type." It will be at the corner of Broadway and 53rd St., with a seating capacity of 1,200, built with some $2,000,000 of the profits from Rose-Marie. In the lobby will stand a life-size figure of the elder Hammerstein. At the official opening, probably in September, 1927, will appear many of the singers who began or advanced their...