Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discovered by F. O'Brien! We'll film his cannibal savages So no one can say he's lyin'!" So should have sung, if they didn't, the crew of the old-time whaling bark Narwhal, which set sail from San Francisco recently with a complement of some 20 adventurers who had heard of the money magnates make in the movies and didn't see why they shouldn't make some themselves. They incorporated themselves as the Mutual Trading Company and expect to be gone eight or ten months, filming hula-maids...
...quite all the globe has become humdrum yet. While reviewers are declaring that O'Brien's pictures of South Sea glamour are mere imaginative fiction, and while Cruises of the Kawa are making them, seem ridiculous, stories like this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel...
Score, Harvard 10, Yale 3. Touchdown, Owen. Goal after touchdown, Owen. Goals from field, O'Hearn, Pfaffman. Referee, E. J. O'Brien, Tufts. Umpire, E. F. Quigley, Stout Institute. Linesman, F. W. Murphy, Brown. Field judge, V. A. Schwartz, Brown. Time, four 15-minute periods...
Thomas C. O'Brien definitely won over Joseph C. Pelletier by a majority of more than 15,000. Pelletier was the Democratic nominee...
...Thomas C. O'Brien, the present district attorney and the Republican candidate for election stands for the highest ideals of the office. In his three months of service since his appointment by Governor Cox, he has shown scrupulous honesty of purpose, legal ability above the average, and fearlessness in the execution of his duty. From any sane, intelligent standpoint it is obvious that his election is of the utmost importance. More than the returning of a good man to office, more than the repudiation of an administration which can be termed a criminal distortion of duty, the whole principle...