Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...junction of the Dog and Steven Rivers with the Winooski was one of the places hardest hit. Nearly 40 feet of water entered the city. First reports said 200 had died there. This figure proved 199 too large but entire blocks of Montpelier were destroyed around the foot of Capitol Hill...
Poor People of the stage, of whom there are plenty, read wistfully in last week's Variety (theatrical trade paper) that Al Jolson has rejected an offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict...
...weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough to lope down...
...beautiful capitol you have," said President Coolidge to Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota as he and Mrs. Coolidge inspected the capitol building at Pierre, S. D., the only western city besides Hammond, Ind., in which the presidential party left the train. Trucks crowded with cameramen flanked the motor car in which the President and the Governor headed the procession through Pierre streets, snapped...
...following article on the value of Washington as a training school for young Journalists was written for the Crimson by H. C. Lodge Jr. '24. Lodge started newspaper work in the Capitol as the State House correspondent for The Boston Transcript, but last year changed to the New York Herald-Tribune, on which paper he now holds the position of correspondent for proceedings in the House of Representatives...