Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
Ballington Booth: "In its issue of March 24, TIME, the Weekly News-Magazine, ignorantly referred to me as 'General Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army.' Although I founded the Salvation Army, I resigned in 1896 and founded the Volunteers of America, of which I have been General-in-Chief and President...
...Charles M. Schwab was a luncheon guest at the White House. Other visitors included Joseph Medill Patterson, Alexander P. Moore (American Ambassador to Spain), General Charles H. Sherrill of the U. S. Army and General Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army, Sergei Rachmaninoff (pianist), William Mengelberg (famed orchestra leader...
...Fighting Coward. There was once a light satire which Booth Tarkington wrote, and it was called Magnolia. This is it again, cinemized, burlesqued. Of course it is entirely improbable, but most funny things are. Whereas there was once a lily livered young butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then...
...Freshman squad under Coach Davidson is gradually getting into condition and several candidates are already showing promise. Among the most likely looking pitchers are R. H. Booth of Exeter and G. M. Gates of Milton while H. S. Gans is out-distancing other candidates for the catching position...