Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...
...posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July, 1925.š Charges. Herman W. Booth was not in Manhattan on the day of his expulsion. He hardly ever appeared on the trading floor...
...seems to be that they do these things much better abroad and that the name doldrums was conceived in honor of the local Riaito. As a matter of fact the theatrical season in Boston is not as good as it used to be--and it never was. Granted that Booth once trod those boards and that the Stupidities of 1927 now makes merry in the hallowed footsteps, the discerning must remember that such is not only a local condition. Other cities, Detroit for one, which are larger than Boston receive worse treatment from the nimble hands of the booking agent...
Married. Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, National Field Secretary of the Big Brother & Sister Movement in America; to Miss Betsy Ross, charity worker; at Webster...
...Manhattan, mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models...