Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
...Hopper was so pressed for time that the interview took place in public, unless a car parked in the midst of the Tremonts Street traffic can be considered as privacy. In apologizing for this haste that made such an informal meeting necessary, Mr. Hopper explained that in all they years that he has been on the stage, only two weeks have been spent in vacations...
...rehearsing for another play. I won't be able to chat with you very long, as I'm expecting my wife almost any minute," he added, and the reporter noticed that for the remainder of the interview the comedian kept glancing alternately out of the four sides of the car with an impatient look on his face...
Once his automobile was wrecked. Singlehanded, to the terror of the trembling gas-hawk who had run into him, he tossed his own car out of a ditch...
...newspaper. "Will his customary courage," wondered readers, "indue? him to fiddle with the St. Paul's orchestra, to pitch for the St. Paul baseball nine, to preach in St. Paul's pulpits, to teach in the St. Paul High School, to drive the St. Paul trolley car...