Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then I owe you a racquet," she said and fetched a racquet on which she signed her name, presented it to onetime Ballboy Wiggins. Twenty-two years ago, pleased with the Wiggins alertness, Miss Sutton promised him a racquet next time she returned. Last week was the first time she had played at Wimbledon since...
With two big girl-shows opening in Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
...initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley...
...many years ago, a tall, shaggy-haired man, none too neatly dressed, was bicycling home through Manchester early one morning. A bobbie stopped him, asked him where he worked. The aged cycler, Editor Scott, told him. The bobbie scowled and said: "Well, I should'a thought they'd let an old man like you get off a bit earlier than this." But to Charles Prestwich Scott work was life. He became the Guardian's editor at 26. He set out to make it one of the world's great newspapers. He succeeded at no expense...
...years ago, when $80,000 was owed to Mead Paper Co. of Dayton, Ohio, that company had to take over Farm Life. T. W. LeQuatte, onetime editor of very successful Successful Farming, was brought in, made publisher. Founder Taylor, septuagenarian, retired, soon was put in the hands of a guardian. But still advertisers could not forget Farm Life's mushroom-growth circulation. Last week Publisher LeQuatte announced that unless $25,000 were raised immediately, the subscription list would be sold and Farm Life would enter bankruptcy, or would be reorganized...