Word: authorities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece was the initial investment which grew into his present fortune...
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman...
Died. William Charles Adamson, 74, onetime member of the U. S. Customs Court in Manhattan, onetime U. S. Representative from Georgia, author of the Eight Hour Railroad Bill;? of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...trial grew to resemble a literary symposium. The names of Shakespeare, George Jean Nathan, Aristotle, Gorky, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and many another were spoken. Author Nichols' "dramaturgical expert," Moses L. Malevinsky of O'Brien, Malevinsky, & Driscoll, proceeded to a comparison of every entrance and exit in Abie's Irish Rose with every entrance and exit in the cinema...
...author's work is an inspiration. He writes from the heart. You get a situation and dq.the best of your ability to get it down on paper and send' it to Washington to be copyrighted...