Word: aves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned Senator. He reminded the Senate that the frequency with which he saw the name of Judge Elbert H. Gary attached to prohibition memorials was only exceeded by the frequency with which he heard envy-rousing reports of the grandly stocked cellar of the grand red house on Fifth Ave. which the Judge occupies. Let the Judge deny the reports or quit signing memorials, was Senator Bruce's suggestion. The fame of Senator Bruce is likely to increase as the prohibition issue becomes more acute. He is no ordinary politician. For years he stood aloof from politics, until...
...with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took it in 1908. Beltane the Smith, The Amateur Gentleman and a dozen others are known wherever stories are read. Chunky, genial, teeming with tales, Jeffery Farnol is the modern Dumas-Dickens...
...hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany's to inquire for neatly enveloped hints that had been left there by committees employed to entertain them...
Died. Leopold Schepp, 84, "The Cocoanut King," eccentric millionaire philanthropist; at Manhattan. As a lad, Mr. Schepp borrowed 18, from his mother and purchased twelve palm-leaf fans which he sold for 36, on a Third Ave. streetcar. Soon he had three other boys selling fans and was making $15 a week. At 27 he had amassed $200,000. Before he died, he had given away over...
...Meanwhile reports of his brief stop-over in Japan reached the U. S. It was learned that never had he been so warmly welcomed. Daily papers hung upon his words?they were words of optimism for the world and Christianity. Crowds clattered to his few public appearances. Delegations solemnized "ave's" and "vale's." Freedom of cities was bestowed upon him. And upon him was bestowed the "Freedom of the Empire." (For another view of Christianity in Nippon, see JAPAN...