Word: adam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Oxford graduate nursing his first play which proved a great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
...kindly old man, who wears a skullcap. Loved by many, twitted by many more, Charles W. Bryan, onetime Governor, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924, brother of the late Great Commoner, he had tried to come back in the gubernatorial race, but was defeated by Governor Adam McMullen by a slim margin...
Dramatist Turai and Collaborator Man sky have taken under their aging wings young Albert Adam (Edward Crandall), composer, in love with Prima Donna Ilona Szabo (Catherine Dale Owen). At a houseparty, the three gentlemen arrive unannounced, are ushered into the room adjacent to the beloved prima donna's. Through the thin wall pierce unfortunate snatches of conversation-"One little kiss," "All right, you may kiss me," "How soft, round, velvety," "Well, you don't have to bite." The voice of the fair Ilona! The voice of Actor Almady! Young Albert is heartbroken, will tear up the music inspired...
...AUBURN STREET Entire--N. B. Parker 5 LINDEN STREET 1st, 2nd Floor--A. W. Richardson 3rd, 4th Floor--George Crawford 59 PLYMPTON STREET Entire--J. H. Browne GORE A Entry--E. H. Hubbard 45 B Entry--A. W. Brown 25 C Entry--L. Perlenfein 21 D Entry--Adam Rhodes 11 E Entry-Guthree Willard 44 STANDISH A Entry--J. P. Davis 34 B Entry--W. T. Robinson Jr. 41 C Entry--R. H. Jones 23 D Entry--Paul Flint 42 GEORGE SMITH A Entry--H. M. Parker 31 B Entry--E. M. Shelton Jr. 22 C Entry--F. V. Nissen...
...late Henry C. Frick, that he should be retiring, now, to write the life of his hero, among other biographical and historical writing that he has laid out for himself. Henry Frick, the doer, would inevitably appeal to George Harvey, the talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant and distiller of famed Overholt Whisky; George Harvey...