Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential elections -began last fortnight to divide, if not into Republicans and Democrats, at least into Hoover voters and Smith voters. In many an instance the final determination of the individual to vote for Hoover or for Smith will not occur until November. A pretty girl at the polling booth, or an ugly man, or a hangover, a new hat, a spun coin, will be the deciding factor...
Died. Robert Bruce Mantell, 74, famed classic and romantic actor (East Lynne, Fedora, many a Shakespearean role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...
Novels--The Gypsy, W. B. Trites. All for Nothing, J. D. Beresford. Deluge, Fowler Wright. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole, Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington, Giants in the Earth, O. E. Rolvaag. Etched in Moonlight, James Stephens, Red Rust, Cornelia J. Cannon, Julius--"A Gentleman With a Duster" Tinker's Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible...
What the Parents' Exposition lacked was an adequate demonstration of methods actually practiced by conscientious modern mothers. The nearest approach to this was a Co-operative Consultation booth, where parents were urged by a sign to "Come in and talk it over." Individual problems were discussed and sound advice given. But, for conciseness, nothing at the exposition equalled the remark which one charming modern mother made as she was leaving the Grand Central Palace: "What do I do with my little boy? Practically nothing. I read to him and he reads to me. I play games with him. When...
...Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...