Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske's acting that she is scarcely to be blamed for reviving a play from her past instead of trying to find and create something new. And, everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale the social heights. She is particularly eager to bring about the marriage of her sister...
...substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters in his off hours. When Durocher talked this time he had the right answer. He wanted to play shortstop. That is just what he will do now and a long step it is for a youth...
...gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig. The Chicago "Row" contains "Kiki" Cuyler, Hornsby, "Hack" Wilson, Riggs Stephenson. Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League. Chicago bettors are already willing to back their team in the 1929 World Series...
...died as he would have preferred to die, in France and at his post of duty, and he goes back to America as he would have liked to go, with the flags of both countries floating over...
...Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper...