Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...
Famous figures and events are told about with all the intimacy that is required in such a book. Barrymore's consistently distinguished family, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, appear as perplexed spectators of the author's checkered career. What happened to this distinguished actor stranded in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...
Besides Dix, a number of former football stars appear in the picture. Among them are Garvey of Notre Dame, the Morey Twins of Brown. Russell of Georgetown, Van-Horn of West Point, and David Butler of Leland Stanford. Esther Ralston is featured in the leading feminine role. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, and a score of substitutes and Second University players accompanied the team...
...long been traditional for "Mike" to appear at Yale games with a small crimson flag given to him in 1908 by D. D. Haughton '99, after the University had defeated a powerful Yale eleven 4 to 0 on a drop-kick. This flag waved at properties moments has spelt source of confusion to Eli cohorts for the last decade...