Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-floor room on Baker Street, London. Things? fresh tobacco and old pipes, bottles of acids and a violin case? seemed to be in disorder, but one had a feeling that their owner could find them, even though blindfolded. Dr. Watson and Billy, the page, were worrying around the room because the owner, Sherlock Holmes, had gone to bed with instructions that he wanted dinner "at seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow...
George Fisher Baker, banker...
Josephine Baker, interviewed at the Folies Bergère, said: "My husband sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything. His father writes me the nicest letters, and his mother is right here in Paris stopping with us for a while...
Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...
...last Josephine Baker was cornered, in her Montmartre night club, by reporters who demanded detailed explanations. Miss Baker, clad in an Afric dance costume of bright feathers, shrugged nervously, grinned, confessed: "Stories sure do travel fast. It was all something I told my friends for a joke-and see how everybody has taken it seriously. The wedding I spoke of was only just a movie wedding...