Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little essay entitled "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,"--an essay, by the way, that can be recommended to anyone who likes his humor biting--Mark Twain delivers some of his opinions of the first of America's older novelists...
...Approval. Frederick Lonsdale's genius for smart repartee dialogue finds many a brilliant opportunity in a play with only four characters. Mrs. Wislack (Violet Kemble Cooper), widow, will experiment for one month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...Anti-Saloon League had collected in 1925. Mr. Wheeler thought it was $150,000 or $200,000-he would get the exact figures. Then Mr. Reed got into the question of which members of Congress had been paid for making prohibition speeches. Mr. Wheeler said Upshaw of Georgia, Cooper of Ohio, Barkley of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi, Senator Jones of Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers' sheetlet exclaimed (of Wheeler...
...chairman of the Appropriations Committee. There are a lot more of course. Will Wood, who runs the Republican Congressional Committee, and Oldfield, who occupies the same post for the Democrats, and others who cut a figure, for one reason or another-Jim Begg, and Fred Britten and Henry Allen Cooper and Hamilton Fish and Howard, who dresses like William Jennings Bryan, and Wingo of Arkansas-you can't stop if you once start picking them...