Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having a stiff competition for the fullback berth. J. de Wolfe Hubbard '29 is also showing up well. The halfback positions are in a way to be well filled with Louis Kerness '29, a two year veteran, A. R. Rudd '39 of last year's team, and A. G. Booth '80, of last year's team competing for them...
...Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...
...care to enquire. II. She did not '"detest" American audiences but adored them and they her. Henry Irving was more appreciated here even than in England therefore there is no base for such an assertion. Both Miss Terry and Irving deplored the fact that England did not appreciate Booth and when he failed there most pathetically, Irving made Booth act in his theatre and share his honors as the great artist and gentleman he was. This as a beau jeste to Americans whom he was most grateful to and has never tired of acknowledging that same great debt...
Henry Irving and it is on record that she detested U. S. playgoers because they seemed generally to prefer the melancholy Booth. She nonetheless toured the U. S. with great success and sometimes sent her greetings to its citizens. Portia was her greatest role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after...
...Girls." These presented the publicists with keys. The city of Detroit, close to Canada, had taken steps to provide in every way for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.* On the first day of the convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid depths of a large swimming pool. On the next evening, as guests of the Detroit Free Press, News & Times, the advertising men enjoyed an almost miraculous party...