Word: comeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the curtain has come down again, talk will be of the season's ensuing events and prospects. Outstanding Chicago opera talk will or should...
...Applebaum was called upon by two of his clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...read an article entitled, "A Cheese Business for the Ages," written by James Louis Kraft and printed in the monthly Kraft house-organ, Cheesekraft. If the stockholder had read further, past a reference to "dear old aunt Beckey. She has gone to her reward," he would have come upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly...
...villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...
...game was a fight from beginning to end with either team lucky to come out on top. Marsters had what have properly been called five of football's greatest minutes and the "alert atom" of the New Haven outfit put on such an exhibition of clever running as has rarely been seen. The little Eli star is the niftiest player you ever hope to see on a football field. When tackled he lands as lightly as a feather, and quite as often as not he would skip over the sidelines just in time to leave a big Indian defender foolishly...