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...troubles Benny fell in love with Margaret Markoe. Uncertain, coy and hard to please, she led him a weary dance but finally married him. Benjamin Franklin died. The same year (1790) Benny started his first newspaper, the General Advertiser, and Political, Commercial, Agricultural and Literary Journal...
...would like to be Governor of Oklahoma. I will not be coy or indefinite about it," blurted Representative Ernest Whitworth Marland, onetime oil tycoon, last week at Ponca City...
Favorite in the Coy Maid Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses...
...after seeing Duse in Chicago in 1918. In Manhattan she offers herself and her services to a producer in return for a part in a smart comedy. Men she picks up and drops by the hodful until a strapping socialite, not unlike Miss Eagels' husband, Yale Footballer Ted Coy, does her wrong. A play not unlike Rain, called Port of Call, in which Miss Larrimore decks herself out as vulgarly as if she were about to play Sadie Thompson, furnishes the volatile actress immense satisfaction. She can tell the men in the play what she thinks of them...
...sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks off with this talisman, the Amazons' power over their men goes with it. The Amazon army surrenders as promptly and completely as could be expected...