Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
...campaign for 'America first,' now being conducted in Chicago by Mayor Thmpson is nothing more than a smoke-screen, thrown up by the group in power ther to cloak their real purposes," was all that David Saville Muzzey '93, Professor of History at Columbia University, would say specifically about the situation existing in Chicago at the present time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed...
President Wilson renamed it Gaillard in memory of its engineer, the late Lieut. Col. David Dubose Gaillard. Last week; Mrs. Gaillard arrived in Panama for the dedication...
Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...
...vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving his solution to the gigantic crossword puzzle of the universe. . Before he died, he wrote this beginning-..for his autobiography: "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody is dead...