Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three men who for an instant bore the title of Association President each delivered an address unusually vigorous...
Show Girl. Dixie Dugan lived in dingiest Brooklyn. Light of foot and heart, she obtained an interview with the great Producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. by telling him she bore a message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...China. But the latter was a degenerate. His energy was spent in painting the town violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce the Emperor to condescend enough to let her bear him an heir. A son she bore and not only covered herself with glory but became as well the famed Dowager Empress of China (1835-1908). She commanded China's 500 millions, decapitated numerous missionaries, took her fun where she found it, including the Yong-Lou of her childhood...
...entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly sarcastic. My sensibilities hardly will muss Any more; they're elastic. I have aversions-God knows it-a score- Motor trips, talkies, recitals, College reunions-they all are a bore Paining me deep in my vitals. I dislike dancing-at least with a And only when I am drinking; Cabarets long ago lost their appeal- Awful, to my way of thinking. Night life? Man, for it I never was strong ; Really, I'm not a bit sporty...