Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
...born in England in 1884, joined the colors as drummer boy at the age of 14, served 21 years in the British and Australian armies. His campaigning carried him to the Occupation of Crete, 1898; the South African War, 1900-02; the Tibet Expedition, 1904-05; the North West Frontier Expedition, 1908-12; Australia; Egypt; Gallipoli; France...
...when they married. She may have been lovelier then, but it is hard telling from photographs (see Cut). She has always remained slim. Her Wolfgang was born in 1904, and her Hans in 1908. When strangers see Wolfgang and Hans with her, today, they sometimes wonder if she is not her sons' siren stepmother...
...Born. To Mrs. Jack Sharkey, wife of Fisticuffer Sharkey, a nine-pound son; in Manhattan...
...name is Olga Baklanova; her address is c/o Paramount-Famous-Players-Lasky Corp., Hollywood, Calif. Compared with her, Theda Bara and the oldtime cinema-bad-women were fudge-makers. She was born in Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...