Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look to him who sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt rather than a Wilson. But in Francis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, Okla., Rome has found far more than an able scrivener. He is fervent yet logical, logical without being dull, slyly humorous but minus the handicaps in persuasion of one who openly jests. A good example...
...most instances disappointing to audience and cast alike. "Seventh Heaven", as "clean and wholesome" as the day it left Boston last October, returned to the Hollis St. Theatre last Monday night and proved the rule as the first exception in many moons. To be sure there was no Mayor Curley present to rise from his box and denounce the moral turpitude of the drama, as on the memorable opening night of its first Boston appearance, nor did the final grand flourish at the end of the third act evoke the applause deemed necessary for speeches from a cast, tired...
Compete for Curley Trophy...
...mile trophy is presented by Ex-Mayor Curley of Boston, and has been won in the past four years by such stars as Joie Ray, Patrick Mahoney, Lloyd Hahn, and Leo Larrive. Larrivee is expected to run this year. In the dash events Hubert Houben, the German sprinter, and Frank Hussey, national 100-yard champion, are entered. All other events except the two relay races are to be handicap affairs...
...January 1, 1926, Mayor-elect Nichols will take office, and promises to reverse many of the policies advocated during the last four years by Mayor Curley...