Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the current number of the Advocate was written especially for the Crimson by Bernard De Voto '18, author of "The House of the Sun goes Down" and other novels...
Engineer Frederick Seely, aide-de-camp of Mr. Connolly, was also convicted of misdemeanor. His sentence was suspended. Mr. Connolly had hardly spent two days in welfare island prison when Lawyer Steuer obtained a certificate of reasonable doubt on the conviction. Mr. Connolly was released on $5,000 bail. Glum experts figured that unless the grafters could be forced to surrender some $10,000,000, the sewer conspiracy would cost every man, woman & child in Greater New York...
Also there was a song which Will Rogers sang together with Andy Tombes. La-de-da was the refrain of the song and its name was the Lard Song; in the course of it, Andy Tombes interrupted his singing to ask Will Rogers whether he had heard about the Scotchman who went to the whippet races. "Yes," said Rogers, "and he bet on the hare...
...Dona Petronila de Guzman made her will, provided for the annual celebration of 60 masses for the repose of her soul. Dona Petronila, a Filipino, died four years later. A chaplaincy to see to the celebration of the masses was provided for. but has been vacant and the income has gone to the care of the Archbishop of Manila. One Paul Rogerio Gonzalez, kin of Dona Petronila, seeks now to recover $86,862.50, alleged income of the chaplaincy between 1911 and 1925. The Supreme Court of the U. S. will decide...
...Richard Dix and Ruth Elder in "Moran of the Marines" a zestful, rollicking romance-comedy, George Bernard Shaw giving a sparkling, intimate interview and Chic Sale in a clowning bit, both thru the Fox Movietone--Gene Rodemich and the Publix Playboy Band in a lavish stageical and musical revue--de luxe--especially concocted by Boris Petroff--and too many other things to mention here--all in honor of the third marvelous anniversary of the "Showplace of All New England" a de luxe Publix Theatre--it's going...