Word: adair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
Alan Ward and Thelma Paige played well in this homely love scene and all the other actors, especially Jean Adair as Mom, did their perhaps too level best to make the rustic trifle seem intense...
When, in April of 1927 (TIME, April 11, 1927), the Adair Realty & Trust Co. of Atlanta went into bankruptcy for $38,000,000, great was the shock to Atlantans, to Georgians, to Southerners. It was an Adair who was the conductor of the first railroad train that ever entered Atlanta (1845). It was an Adair who was prominent in the rebuilding of Atlanta after Union troops burned the city during the Civil War. Forrest Adair Sr., present head of Adair family, is a Past Illustrious...
Potentate of the Shrine (social organization of 32-degree Masons). Thus the failure of Adair Co. was the failure of a great institution...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...