Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am glad to see you deal try to give the "Christian General" a square deal which I believe he has seldom had in American or Engilsh newspapers. You mention Mr. Gailey without stating that he is "Bob" Gailey, erstwhile famous athlete at Princeton University, who has been giving a...
A highly educated and patriotic native Chinese wrote me recently: "What China needs most of all is a Mussolini." I am inclined to believe that Feng measures nearer to this admirable standard of patriotism and exemplary life than any other of the Chinese leaders now conspicuous.
Baron Dewar, famed British whiskey distiller, has a new quip: "I am told that the infallible American method of testing bootleg whiskey is to drop a sledge hammer into it. If it sinks, the stuff is poor, if it floats, good, and if it dissolves, perfect."
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact...
The pretensions of all these are as dust compared to the potential glory of Jane Carroll. She was born in Louisville, Ky., but she came to Manhattan long ago, to play in the Follies. Therefore she is no foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see...