Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Irish heroine starts as a poor newsgirl under the Brooklyn Bridge. She ends up wife and heir to the Morgan millions. This simple tale is unfolded amid a frenzy of dancing, rather unimpressive music, vast displays of color and a sprinkling of humor. Thousands of the public flocked to Little Nellie Kelly; the same thousands will doubtless jam the benches of the Liberty Theatre to enjoy the upward curve of Rosie's fortune...
William Jennings Bryan: "My head covered with a skull cap, I made an address before the Brooklyn Jewish forum on the subject, What The World Needs. My solution was that obedience to God's laws, is the one and and only thing needed to set all things right...
Died. William H. Humiston, 54, probably America's leading authority on the music of Wagner and Bach, music critic for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, following an exploratory operation which disclosed a malignant cancer...
...Harvard Lampoon announces the election of six sophomores to the board, Thomas Harols Creighton '26 of Brooklyn, New York and Bartlett Harding Hayes, Jr. '26, of Andover, were elected to the literary and art department; and as a result of a competition which started at the opening of college the following men were chosen for the business department; Robert Gray Allen '26, of Andover; Robert Brown Morrison Barton '26 of Pikesville, Maryland; Edward Walker Marshall '26 of Portland, Maine; and Reginald Franklin Conroy Vance '26 of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition, John Bird '24, Davidson Scholar from England, was elected...
...Archbishop of Chicago? George Mundelein?was also associated with New York from the time of his birth. He served many years as Bishop of Brooklyn. Although the Archbishop's red-brick residence is a landmark in Chicago, Mgr. Mundelein has confined himself almost exclusively to matters purely ecclesiastical and intellectual...