Word: burnses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse...
¶ 1,600-metre relay: Burns, Mulvihill, Higgins, Tierney of Holy Cross, 3 min. 26 1/5 sec. (First time,)
Then The New York World discovered that four of the messages were in a code used by the Department of Justice, or at least a code formerly so used. The deciphered messages did not reveal much except what was already known-that McLean's employees were keeping him informed...
The strength of the Huntington squad is uncertain, but the relay race should furnish easily the most exciting contest of the meet. The Huntington quartet, Burns, Rowe, Carney, and Clark, has some fast times to its credit.
¶Lord Haldane, Lord Chancellor, a Liberal in the Labor den, gave the lead to the Socialists by cutting down his large salary ($42,500). Patrick Hastings, Attorney General, was reported to be sticking to his $29,750 salary and to his fees which easily reach $125,000 a year...