Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Publisher Hearst was a Democrat, Cartoonist Powers invented his famed figure, the "Interests." It was his pen also which identified the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna with the dollarsign. This year the "Interests" have been cleverly brought back to suit the shift in Hearst politics and, between them, the Messrs. Powers and Brisbane have personified the present-day Democracy as a female donkey called "Diamond Lil." They took the name from a play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece...
...also in business in 1913. . . . Had not the War intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than in 1894. ... It is the sincere wish of the writer and this industry that your hopes of success may be blasted." Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Hess Hawley and sev¬ eral other directors of college athletics. R e a s o n s : n o t a n n o unced...
...splendid and enormous University of Chicago employs Coach Alonzo Stagg to improve its football team. Coach Stagg, by putting in his best men, managed to keep the University of South Carolina down to one touchdown; since his own men did not score, they lost the game, 6-0. Then they lost a second game to Ripon College (Ripon...
...completed last week his third season as designer-proprietor-manager of the Overlook Theatre, at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.* Built on his father's estate, the theatre is architecturally arresting, mechanically capable of showing both vaudeville and cinema to an audience of 66. The vaudeville includes magic ("Professor Alonzo, Swindler") and skits ("The Man Who Was Legally Right''). The performers are young friends of Son Collier; they give fictitious names in the programs. Said Son Collier: "I don't act unless I have to. I have enough to do." After locking the door of his theatre...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, University of Chicago coach, had a birthday, learned the significance of numbers. There are 11 men on a football team; 44 years ago he first donned moleskins at Yale; he was 66 last week...