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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...Josephine Baker . . . born in St. Louis. . . arose from the obscurity of a Missouri town to be acclaimed the 'Darling of Paris.' Several years ago . . . when she was a mere girl . . . the Courier . . . remarked that she would...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...
...People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some...
...play-off of the tie, Armour again came from behind to complete the round in 76, while Cooper slashed for a 79. A spectator's body prevented one of Armour's mashie shots from going into some rock-ribbed tall grass. Open Champion Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 32 years ago. During the War he served in the tank corps, emerging with a partly paralyzed left arm. Distinguished in Great Britain as an amateur golfer, he did not turn professional until after coming to the U. S. in 1920. Since 1926, he has been...