Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported...
...palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like turning anarchist and throwing a bomb in the cellar...
...never come to America, so he is sending me instead, to 'show his interest in America, because I am his namesake. . . . This year and next there will be great expositions at Seville and Barcelona, so there has now been established the Patronato Regio del Turismo (Royal Tourist Board) composed of many important Spanish personages...
Died. Thomas Francis Logan, 47, president of Lord & Thomas & Logan (potent advertising agency), special U. S. Shipping Commissioner in Paris during the Wa, and close associate of Food Administrator Herbert Clark Hoover and Chairman Edward N. Hurley of the U. S. Shipping Board;* of acute indigestion; at Ardsley-on-Hudson...
...Lord & Thomas & Logan's board chairman is another onetime head of the Shipping Board-Albert D. Lasker...