Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before her last voyage she was overhauled in drydock at Brooklyn. A minor collision in the Erie basin as she left dry-dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...
Another old fighter, Johnny Dundee, set out to make a comeback. His real name is Joseph Carrora; he is 35; a year ago he was smashed by Tony Canzoneri. In Brooklyn last week he hooked and dodged, bounced in from the ropes, stepped away from Gaston Charles; in the last three rounds, he punched the surprised French man. The crowd cheered when Dundee was awarded the victory which would have been even more romantic had it been better deserved...
Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn; to be President of the Yonkers Electric Light & Power Co. Mr. Sloan now heads five light & power companies in Greater New York, which form the second largest public utilities unit in the U. S., exceeded only by American...
...Brooklyn Heights. There he learned the factual prototypes and stimuli for the Rampole episode: he had been rescued five years before by a scientific expedition searching Megatheria, he had been pet lunatic to an elderly psychiatrist, he had been loved and cured by the damsel Rowena. Blettsworthy promptly accepted these facts, married Rowena, went to (World) War, came back crippled, and resumed a civilized life. But his outlook was tinged, his cynicism sharpened, by his intimate experience of savagery...
More interesting than her picture, Marion Davies is still the smartest of the four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give...