Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chortled when a backbencher "Wet" cried to famed feminist exponent of temperance Viscountess Nancy Astor, M. P.: "What does the noble lady know from experience of the effects of small beer? The noble lady should become a member for one month of the Ancient Order of Frothblowers and diligently observe their slogan: 'Gallup your beer with zest...
...Tiger (Milton Sills). On a sea-swept island off the coast of Spain, lives Justin Ramos (Milton Sills) captain of a fishing vessel, hardfisted, passionate, intent upon the affections of Amy (Mary Astor). To win her, he batters many men into hasty submission, generally employing for this purpose a righthanded, crunching, demoralizing and incapacitating haymaker, after the manner of Milton Sills since the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Finally, he chucks his ladylove under the chin, drags her to church and enters holy matrimony...
...curious company of men shuffled and smartcracked their way in to a dinner one evening last week at the Astor Hotel, Manhattan. There were enough of them to have raised the census at least a decimal point, and their aggregate income would have given Secretary of the Treasury Mellon considerable satisfaction. Yet loitering lobbyites who glanced up at them as they entered the hotel, and the nimble-witted telephone girl who placed their after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb...
...Antonio-cowboys, jailbreakers, sheriffs, wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
...Astor. (The flower, of course, is Aster...