Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark...
...flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
...public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner) and an appointment from another (Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come to pass, a Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan impresario, offered the President-Reject $50,000 for ten debates on Prohibition against famed prohibiters, beginning (perhaps) with Senator Borah at Madison Square Garden...
Superpatriotic parts of the U. S. press (Hearst, et al.) interpreted this announcement as a notable "reaction" to the President's speech. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, the Navy Department was at pains to explain that it was merely repeating what it had said since the international naval disarmament conference of 1922, to wit, that, within the agreed capital-ship limit, the U. S. Navy should be kept 100% efficient...
...eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...